Political Commentary & Opinion

President Donald Trump launched his overhaul of trade policy last week by withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His next move ought to be elimination of the crony Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im). Throughout the presidential campaign, and since taking office, Trump has emphasized the importance of refashioning trade policy to benefit American companies, American…

Ride a train on a sunny day from New York to Philadelphia. That is a little over 100 miles, but along the rails you will see miles and miles of dilapidation and defacement—culverts scrawled with gangland graffiti and obscenities, the undersides of bridges heaped up with garbage, old fences rotting and falling apart, abandoned mills, disused…

The Environmental Protection Agency and many of its regulations are ripe for reform. Some of these changes may very well be contentious, but there are some critical changes that should be obvious. Here are five of these changes: 1. The EPA shouldn’t act unethically or break the law to promote its agenda. The EPA shouldn’t…

There is an old quotation that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. For Americans, who have a unique and exceptional heritage, it is important that we remember the lessons of our past and engage with the first principles and ideas that have come before us. Just prior to his inauguration, President Donald Trump compared…

Mary Tyler Moore was not what most people would call a conservative. But what may surprise many television fans mourning her passing at age 80 Wednesday is that the actress also didn’t consider herself a liberal. In the 2013 PBS series “Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies,” Moore explained that despite her TV character’s image on…

The new year has just begun, but if the first few weeks are any indication, then the American law enforcement community could be in for a rough—and dangerous—2017. In just the first 24 days of January, 12 police officers have already died or been killed in the line of duty. That represents a 140 percent jump from…

One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes. For those unfamiliar with the term “snowflakes,” it is increasingly being used to characterize college students easily traumatized by criticism and politically incorrect phrases. They demand safe spaces and trigger warnings so as…

Among President Donald Trump’s first actions as president was issuing a hiring freeze for certain federal employees. Trump made it clear in his inaugural address that he thinks the federal government is doing a lousy job of fulfilling its primary purpose of serving the American people. So why not press the pause button and allow…

Conventional wisdom holds that the great malady plaguing American life today is the toxic combination of political polarization and social fragmentation. And there’s a great deal of truth to this diagnosis. We are, as one astute observer put it, a “fractured republic,” fraught with intense divisions and deep anxieties that are not easily resolved. But I…