Opinion

President Donald Trump has taken an important step in curtailing the oversized federal footprint in the Western states. On Monday, Trump announced that he will substantially reduce the area of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. President Barack Obama had used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to set aside 1.35 million acres…

A Nov. 29 hearing on Capitol Hill shed much-needed light on the way the Federal Aviation Administration is running a new pilot program intended to bring state and local governments into the regulatory fold. The new pilot program was created by President Donald Trump to speed up the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (also known…

Because of the largesse of federally financed subsidies in the Federal Housing Administration’s reverse-mortgage program, the federal government has gradually crowded out private insurers from the market for these financial products since the program began in the late 1980s. Indeed, amid the multitrillion-dollar maze of federal insurance and guarantee programs lies the Federal Housing Administration…

Religious liberty and same-sex marriage finally meet at the Supreme Court today. We discuss the stakes for every American. Plus: Russia gets itself banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics, a U.S. congressman resigns in disgrace, and why the federal government won’t get off our lawn (literally).

Politicians don’t have a crystal ball that can predict the future of energy prices, energy supplies, or demand for electricity and gasoline. But they pretend to, and that’s a problem. It leads to market-distorting policies that harm Americans as consumers and taxpayers. Take the Renewable Fuel Standard. Congress and the George W. Bush administration established…

There are few things as big as President Donald Trump’s personality—but the National Christmas Tree comes close. At 50 feet, it loomed large over the crowd at the lighting ceremony, almost as large as the debate about the holiday itself. For the Trumps, Thursday’s event wasn’t so much about flipping the switch on a giant…

Some members of Congress are threatening to block government funding unless Congress provides amnesty to so-called Dreamers—the illegal aliens included in President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Donald Trump is ending. Responsible members of Congress should not give in. Such an effort would be fundamentally flawed and would only encourage…