Opinion

Commentary Quietly and with no great fanfare, President Trump has resurrected the most innovative strategy of his first term. In fact, I’ve argued that this one measure is the single most creative approach to government reform to advance in a ...

Commentary There likely are more than five scenarios that Iranians could opt for as hostilities unwind, but the following five visions represent the paths Iran could take this year. Will 2026 onward become the Third Islamic Republic, following the first ...

Commentary I was sitting at my kitchen table the other night, mindlessly scrolling through my phone after a long day, when the story appeared again. A young YouTube couple had decided to terminate a pregnancy after learning their baby had ...

Trump moves to break the Public Health Monopoly

Commentary China's demographic collapse is so advanced that even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent a massive population decline because there are simply too few women of childbearing age. The ageing crisis facing China is well documented and ...

China has lost its competitive edge in several areas—notably, furniture making—because of Trump’s tariffs, but also because of fundamental cost considerations.

Commentary I owned five restaurants in Los Angeles. Between them, we served well over a thousand meals a day. Looking back, I don't remember a single customer walking out because we didn't serve soda. In fact, it was rarely even ...

Commentary Canada’s economic growth has been sluggish for some years now. It hasn’t been above 1 percent growth in a quarter since the beginning of 2023 and has reached negative numbers occasionally. While the economy has been flirting with being ...

Commentary Every year on June 6, Canadians gather to remember D-Day. We remember the young men who climbed into landing craft in the darkness before dawn. We remember the soldiers who crossed the English Channel, knowing that many would never ...

Commentary With the signing of the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, America’s founders accomplished something new under the sun: They brought into existence a nation rooted in the belief that individuals are by nature free and equal. This year ...

From technocrats to central planners, the temptation to engineer society persists. Adam Smith saw the dangers clearly.

Commentary Last week, we hosted our monthly Brownstone Institute Supper Club at Sovereignty Ranch. Our guest speaker was Mikki Willis, producer of “Plandemic,” “The Great Awakening,” and several other films that became touchstones for millions of people trying to make ...

Commentary Each year, the Census Bureau publishes population estimates for all municipalities in the United States with a population of 20,000 or more. Last month, it released last year’s estimates, reporting population changes for nearly 2,000 municipalities. According to the ...

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