When Private Power Fails the Nation, the Nation Must Govern Itself
There is a moment in every serious economic crisis when the great private machinery of commerce sputters, locks up, and leaves millions of working people standi
Opinion
Signed opinion columns and commentary.
The Lights Must Stay On: America Cannot Win the AI Race on an Empty Grid
The United States currently leads the world in artificial intelligence research, and it is about to squander that lead on a problem as old as the industrial rev
A Republic That Cannot Arm Itself Without Begging a Monopolist Has Already Lost Something Essential
The United States Navy recently acknowledged that it cannot build submarines fast enough to meet its own strategic requirements, and the reason given by uniform
The President Is Not the Law: On the Slow Strangling of the Separation of Powers
A government that treats its own courts as obstacles rather than partners in constitutional order has already begun to consume itself, and the only question rem
The Federal Government Has Confused Spending Money With Doing Good
The federal debt has now passed $36 trillion. That number is so large it has become decorative, the kind of figure politicians cite on the way to voting for the
The Pentagon Buys Weapons the Way a Bad Mayor Fills Potholes: Slowly, Expensively, and Twice
The F-35 program has now cost American taxpayers more than $400 billion in development and procurement, and the aircraft still carries a maintenance backlog tha
The Children Were Already Screaming Before Anyone Listened
Somewhere in this country tonight, a child is putting a parent to bed. Not the way children are supposed to, not with a story and a kiss, but checking for breat
The Agency That Governs You Was Never Elected by You
There is a particular kind of dishonesty that wears the face of competence. It tells you the elected branches are too slow, too crude, too captured by passion t
The Bank Always Wins — Until the People Decide It Doesn’t
Drive two hundred miles outside any major American city and ask the first farmer you meet what he thinks of the Federal Reserve. Do not expect a polite answer.
The Government That Cannot Stop Spending Has Already Decided You Work for It
Congress passed a federal budget last year that added roughly $1.8 trillion to the national debt, and very few members lost sleep over it. The ones who did were