By: Ryan Denison – denisonforum.org – September 30, 2025 Congress has until the end of today to fund the government, or at least parts of it will shut down starting tomorrow. One of the primary flaws in our current political system is the degree to which Americans on both sides are tempted to overlook abuses of power when they’re used...

By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – September 25, 2025 Democrats will suffer lasting effects if they go through with their threats. Washington is barreling toward a shutdown. The Senate returns from a break on Monday with two days to provide stopgap funding to keep the government humming. Messrs. Schumer and Jeffries are having none of it. They insist government...

For decades, the Canadian state has consistently located itself at the vanguard of progress and national excellence.

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – September 24, 2025 The only certainty is that public trust in Washington isn’t about to improve. It looks as if we’ll have another government shutdown. On Friday House Republicans passed a continuing resolution to fund the government. In response, Senate Democrats demanded that the resolution extend Biden-era ObamaCare subsidies that soon expire. Republicans won’t...

By: Ron Johnson – wsj.com – September 21, 2025 The way to do it is to convert to multiyear spending cycles and avoid the constant drama over appropriations. With another shutdown looming, I’ve introduced an even simpler bill, the Eliminate Shutdowns Act, that could end the drama and uncertainty of Congress’s budgetary dysfunction. Some argued the 2019 bill would lead...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – September 10, 202 Radicals run wild because those in authority came for status and consensus, not seeking a fight. In “Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them,” eight scholars representing multiple fields declare that “Western science” is “rooted in colonization, racism and white supremacy.” The task of the scientist is thus no longer the...

Setting the stage for a major ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether a 1977 federal law giving the president certain emergency powers allowed President Donald Trump to levy tariffs on nearly all goods imported into the United States through a series of executive orders.

By: Phil Gramm and Jeb Hensarling – wsj.com – September 3, 2025 The central bank differs from other agencies in that the power to coin money belongs to Congress. The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value. Congress, in fulfilling that delegated responsibility, created the Federal Reserve. In carrying out narrowly defined monetary policy, the Fed isn’t...

President Trump’s newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the econom…

Exploring the decline of confidence in major institutions and the role of big business.