China recently implemented a “zero-tariff” policy for 53 countries in Africa. As Chinese and African citizens increasingly reap the mutual benefits of trade, America is losing out by heading in the opposite direction. China imports…

Even as the U.S. and Iran wrestle over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, surging gas prices have turned the government’s attention to a perennially popular fiscal scam: Ease the pressure on household…

The Trump administration’s announcement last Friday that foreigners seeking green cards should travel to their home country to apply is the latest salvo in a drive to reduce the number of legal immigrants. Adding layers…

When the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the great social question of his time.  In the 1891 encyclical,…

The U.S. Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the…

Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins…

Republicans used to criticize “sue and settle” tactics for changing federal policy outside of the democratic process, but the Trump administration is taking the practice to a new extreme. President Donald Trump “settled” his own…

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana will be covered as evidence of President Donald Trump’s grip over the party.  Cassidy voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment following Jan. 6,…

Two statements Thursday evening convinced me I should vote “no” in the Aug. 4 primary election on whether Kansas should change its Constitution on how the seven seats on the Kansas Supreme Court are decided.…

Despite taking an oath (twice) to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Donald Trump clearly hasn’t read it. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress, not the president, the “Power To lay…