Poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92. With his death, America loses one of its deepest, most deliberate thinkers, a…
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Last spring, Senator Elizabeth Warren expressed due concern that newly confirmed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh had “proven himself to be Donald Trump’s sock puppet….”…
People who get their health insurance through their employers will see higher premiums next year: Employer-sponsored health insurance plans are poised to get more expensive…
I’m in the middle of a six-week stay in our glorious National Parks. Seen so far: chipmunks, ground squirrels, ravens, one fox enjoying a successful…
Artificial intelligence—or at least corporate enthusiasm for it—is doing us some good. In Staff Report 686 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, four Federal…
Cato Institute economist Scott Lincicome posts some charts busting White House propaganda about tariffs and manufacturing. Of particular interest is Lincicome’s finding that since November…
Just as Senators Rounds and Klobuchar offer an idea to help domestic livestock producers by restoring more grazing land, Donald Trump kicks America’s cattlemen in…
Want to put $14,000 back into the pockets of families with little kids? Follow Michigan’s example and offer universal pre-kindergarten: Michigan’s initiative to offer free…
The Trump Administration is spending big money to push scientists to use artificial intelligence: MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Trump administration is pursuing what it calls…