The twentieth century saw the American South transformed from widespread poverty into market-driven economic dynamism.

Shutdowns get the spotlight, but the greater failure is Congress’s reliance on stopgap spending bills that cripple planning and invite waste. There are just two ways out of this shutdown: approval of ...

Washington responded to two crises with extraordinary monetary and fiscal interventions. Why did COVID-era stimulus produce ...

Nearly 1,000 plant workers near Kansas City find themselves on indefinite layoff. The reason for this, according to a union official? A gap of about 115,000 vehicles. General Motors had been on pace ...

Deirdre McCloskey’s books about (British) economic history and liberty have had an outsized impact on me and my intellectual development for almost two decades. After a publishing streak worthy of ...

The Trump administration calls economic isolation a weapon against Iran and a recipe for prosperity at home. Protectionism is ...

Compare that to the reception of recent VFX-heavy blockbusters, where armies of digital artists are employed to create spectacles, at grand scale but without stakes. The audience disconnects. We know ...

Every few years, Americans rediscover Scandinavia. Someone visits Norway or Denmark, returns dazzled and envious of parental leave and universal childcare, and asks why America refuses to copy what ...

The Trump Administration’s initial demand for renegotiating the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) includes an opening position that vehicles covered by the deal be composed of at least 50 ...

Australia tried to end smoking with punitive taxes. Instead, it created a lucrative trade for smugglers and a wave of violent attacks on retailers. A similar story is unfolding in the Land Down Under.

Congress rejected constitutional alternatives in favor of remaking a nation. Abroad, as at home, lawmakers cannot manufacture preferred social outcomes simp ...

A common narrative from politicians on the right is that immigration is economically disastrous. President Trump has argued that “immigration costs our country billions and billions of dollars each ...