Political Commentary & Opinion

There’s a key reason two estimates of the economic effects of the GOP tax bill show only small effects: they’re largely ignoring the primary mechanism that will lead to economic growth—the inflow of investment to the United States from other countries. The Tax Policy Center and the Joint Committee on Taxation have produced estimates of…

Finally, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s faux feminist veneer has fully cracked. The Democratic “shero” is, and always has been, a sham. But after Pelosi’s incoherent appearance on “Meet the Press” defending Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Al Franken, D-Minn., the progressive left can no longer mask her apologism. Pelosi milked her XX chromosomes for…

After the royal engagement to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle announced she wouldn’t be returning to her job as an actress on the hit TV show “Suits.” “I don’t see it as giving anything up,” Markle told BBC’s Mishal Husain in an interview. “I see it as a change. It’s a new chapter.” But that didn’t…

The end of the world is nigh. That at least is the message being spread by last-ditch defenders of the Obama-era “network neutrality” rules, which Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has scheduled for elimination later this month. The imminent repeal of these rules has sent red tape supporters into rhetorical overdrive. The internet as…

This article is fourth in a series of five about the importance of Section 702. You can read the first article, “How the Section 702 Program Helps America Thwart Terrorist Plots,” here, the second article, “Anti-Terror Law’s Safeguards Against Incidental Collection of Domestic Data Are Sufficient,” here and the third article, “Ample Safeguards of Civil Liberties Warrant FISA…

This article is third in a series of five about the importance of Section 702. You can read the first article, “How the Section 702 Program Helps America Thwart Terrorist Plots,” here, and the second article, “Anti-Terror Law’s Safeguards Against Incidental Collection of Domestic Data Are Sufficient,” here.  Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

Liberal elites at universities, who rarely meet a tax they don’t like, finally seem to have found one tax proposal that is unacceptable to them. What makes this tax proposal different? Graduate students believe it will hit close to home. The proposal at hand, which is part of the House GOP’s tax reform bill, would…

Members of Congress brought renewed attention to a legislative effort to halt efforts by the Department of Justice to restart one of the most controversial civil forfeiture practices, so-called “adoptive” forfeitures. The practice, part of the equitable sharing program, allows state and local law enforcement to seize property in their jurisdictions and then hand it…

If you consider yourself a conservative, have you ever thought about why? How would you answer someone who asked you to explain the reason? Maybe you’ve never thought about it before. It might be because your parents were conservative, and you absorbed your political outlook from them. Or perhaps you read and thought your way…

On Wednesday, two House Financial Services Committee subcommittees will hold a joint hearing about two bills, one of which is the Counter Terrorism and Illicit Finance Act. Section 9 of this bill, titled “Transparent Incorporation Practices,” is directed squarely at the smallest businesses in America. It imposes a new beneficial ownership reporting requirement, meaning that…