Although President Trump has been accused of “always chickening out,” he has not shied away from applying pressure on countries ranging from Iran to Venezuela. In recent months, however, Trump has ...

On September 16, 2025, the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the purpose and use of the tax-exempt status widespread in the hospital sector. In this ...

Baseball’s robot umpires may look like a narrow sports experiment. In fact, they are a parable for the economy at large: Technology pares back one craft, redistributes value, and leaves the real ...

After Portland, Oregon, first used its new proportional ranked-choice voting electoral system to elect city council members in November 2024, it is unclear what style of politics will emerge in future ...

If productivity has in fact been stronger than the official numbers show, then interventions in manufacturing may have delivered a better return on public dollars than either their champions or ...

More college students are “learning with their feet” by changing their majors to fields with better earning potential.

The Jimmy Kimmel suspension controversy illustrates complex First Amendment issues when FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened legal action over Kimmel's political commentary, raising questions about ...

The core problem in 340B runs deeper than poor oversight. The law requires steep discounts for purchased drugs but does not specify that the savings should be passed on to patients and insurance ...

The temptation to engineer outcomes exists and is gaining momentum. Industrial policy may help jump-start infant industries in some cases, especially in emerging markets, but Beijing’s oversupply ...

The Wall Street Journal’s USA250 series asked a group of economists to make a long-term forecast: What will American capitalism look like in 2075? Good luck. As the saying goes, predictions are hard, ...

Please share THB with your Aussie friends, family, and colleagues! Last week, the Australian government released a suite of reports on climate change. Among them were: The first National Climate Risk ...

Tax max abolished; Democratic voters hardest hit. Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to run dry in 2032, meaning that elected officials will need to start drawing up reform plans ...