Jan 12, 2026
Federal prosecutors now suggest that up to half of the $18 billion spent on 14 Medicaid-funded Minnesota programs since 2018 may have been tied to fraud. Even if those estimates are revised downward, the pattern is unmistakable. Fraud became routine.
Jan 2, 2026
Don't be fooled. Yes, the status quo is unsustainable, and pretending otherwise is reckless. But taxing the rich can't meaningfully solve our underlying fiscal problems. Feelings are not solutions.
Dec 27, 2025
This holiday season reminds me that generosity requires capacity, not just money but time. Growth, in short, makes us more capable of being good to one another.
Dec 22, 2025
Treating every elderly person, no matter how well-off, as a member of a protected class entitled to increasingly unaffordable benefits will eventually destroy a system that progressives in particular cherish.
Dec 11, 2025
Trump and Mamdani are converging on economic issues. One likes price floors, the other likes rent control. They're both waging the same "war on prices," as the Cato Institute's Ryan Bourne calls it. And this war enjoys rising bipartisan support.
Dec 4, 2025
The populist poles of the left and right are now linked in what political scientists call the "horseshoe." As each gets further from the center, it bends closer toward its counterpart on the other side.
Nov 20, 2025
Every few years, someone insists that real "industrial policy" has never been tried. The left's call for a "mission-oriented" state and the right's yearning for a nationalist industrial revival share the same conceit: that their own intentions can succeed where intervention failed.
Nov 7, 2025
Emergency bills move fast, face weak scrutiny and become irresistible means for unrelated projects or those that Congress would never approve otherwise.