"Why so few babies?" asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about "The Population Bomb," the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R.Ehrlich predicted worldwide famines and other dire consequences ...
Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country -- by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances. Democrats violated the state's constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four congressional seats away from ...
My son came home from school the other day and announced that the two most underappreciated occupations were teachers and nurses. During National Nurses Week, he had heard that, he told me, from his teacher. And though her bias might have tinged the first part of her claim (frankly, I think ...
President Donald Trump and Congress want to help you increase your savings. And you should. At the household level, saving is the foundation of financial security and the seed capital for a better retirement. At the economy-wide level, savings fund investment that expands the capital stock, ...
The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais has made progressives even more determined to delegitimize the Supreme Court, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is among them. In a dissent involving a post-decision procedural question, Jackson accused the majority of acting out of pure ...
For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions. Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks -- often rapidly achieved ...