Opinion

Sunday evening comes around and you wish the weekend had just one more day. You are just not feeling it. Monday morning, whether you’ll be sitting at a desk or outside on the construction site, looks to be a drag. You wonder if you’re lazy—or is it something else? According to John Tamny, it’s something else….

You can’t put a price on education, the saying goes, but if you did, it would be very high. And the cost falls on everyone. Indeed, our economy is hampered by a two-pronged higher education problem: Collectively, Americans have racked up some $1.4 trillion in outstanding student loan debt. At the same time, that debt…

The sulking over the 2016 election sure isn’t over. Democrats are now abandoning President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union. Plus: we talk about the bonuses liberal companies are giving because of tax reform, the news that Cecile Richards is stepping down from Planned Parenthood, and the powerful personal stories of the women who…

High-tax states such as New York, California, and New Jersey are spending significant time and resources trying to concoct ways for their high-income residents to evade federal taxes. This strategy is in direct response to the newly enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which caps state and local tax deductions from federal income taxes at…

A new government report on terrorism uses data selectively to produce skewed conclusions on the percentage of acts of terrorism committed in the U.S. by those born in another country. In a quick read, the Jan. 16 report from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department appears to demonstrate that foreign-born individuals committed…

President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The president was responding to statements made in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside…

Trade officials from the United States, Canada, and Mexico were set to meet Tuesday in Montreal for the latest round of talks to discuss how to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement, which began in 1994. A year after its signing, The Heritage Foundation published the first edition of its annual Index of Economic Freedom in…

The federal government’s three-day closure ended with something of a whimper on Monday. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to reopen the government with a stopgap bill that will fund the government through Feb. 8, according to The New York Times. Now that the shutdown has ended (without the world coming to an end), it’s worth comparing…