The following is an edited version of remarks prepared by Scott K. H. Bessent for the Toward a New Supply-Side: The Future of ...

In response to political and fiscal pressures, and with crime rates well below their 1990s peak, jails and prisons are ...

If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloomberg headline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at ...

The nomination of the prominent public health establishment critic is a major victory for science and academic freedom.

The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have permanently rearranged the world’s cities. A new study, published in the Proceedings of ...

Six days before the election, the statistician Nate Silver issued a warning to his 3.4 million followers on X: “Just Say No ...

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze (HarperCollins, 304 pp., $25.60) It’s daunting to start or run a business in the United States. You often can’t pursue your ...

The University of Michigan may soon end its considerable investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion—news that has roused faculty activism. Tabbye Chavous, the university’s chief diversity officer, ...

President Biden signed legislation in October exempting semiconductor projects from review under the National Environmental Policy Act. While the new Building Chips in America law will accelerate fab ...

There is an old saw that, in America, every great cause begins as a movement and eventually degenerates into a racket. This is certainly true of the past decade’s most fashionable cause: “diversity, ...