WILLIAMS: Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs
There are a couple of important economic lessons that the American people should learn. I’m going to title one “the seen and unseen” and...
HART: Tariffs cost Americans money and they seldom work
Every bad political idea starts with a false premise. The “Affordable Care Act” lie, that we had an awful health care system and government...
A SHARP LIFE: And the band played on
One of the challenging things about raising kids, especially when you have a quartet of them, is how different they are.Consider this example. The...
ELDER: Tariffs and economic populism: Good politics, bad economics
We came to expect economic illiteracy from left-wing President Barack Obama.For example, in attempting to explain away his tepid economic recovery, Obama blamed the...
SULLUM: Trump, slayer of drug pushers
The president wants to kill drug dealers, which he thinks would be a legal, moral, and effective way to prevent opioid-related deaths. He is...
CHAREN: The man of steel has overlooked quite a bit
“If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country” declared President Donald Trump at a press availability with the Swedish prime minister. He...
CHAPMAN: Trump’s North Korea gambit could be a big deal, for good or ill
It’s not Richard Nixon’s opening to China. It’s not Neville Chamberlain’s journey to Munich. But President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s willing to meet...
ESTRICH: ‘Nothing’s as bad as the 9th Circuit’
“Nothing’s as bad as the Ninth Circuit”: That is the president of the United States talking to the nation’s governors on Monday about the...
WILLIAMS: Hidden agenda or ignorance?
Before we discuss violence with guns, I’d like to run a couple of questions by you. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
HART: Self-control before gun control
With the help of a sensationalizing press and of the entertainment business, which makes the pernicious and violent video games and movies that I...