What is a political community? This seemingly abstract question has become perhaps thepractical problem for our politics today. With the... Read More

Governments, seemingly eager to supply their critics with ammunition, constantly validate historian Robert Conquest: The behavior of any... Read More

In theory, money bail is a useful policy. It requires accused criminals to pay a deposit to secure their release from jail and incentivizes... Read More

Immerse yourself in the pro-immigration literature of Democratic Party thinkers, and you will notice a curious pattern of argument: High... Read More

In May this year, to whoops and yeahs, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled Duplex, Google's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal... Read More

In May 2017, ex-Google employee and design ethicist James Williams outlined his vision for a world in which technology companies are held... Read More

I was sitting in a nondescript hotel ballroom, press credential strung around my neck, listening to the opening remarks at a conference in... Read More

Through the ages the death of civilizations, no less than the death of human beings, has fascinated unnumbered observers of the human... Read More

The first bridges were likely to have been built by early man shoving a fallen tree across a stream. Since then, construction techniques have... Read More

Against all odds, Rand Paul is once again the most interesting man in politics. When TIME first called him that in 2014, the... Read More

Democrats are complaining that Republicans who control the U.S. Senate are in a rush to confirm Brett Kavanaugh for a seat on the Supreme... Read More

Early this month, Senator Marco Rubio introduced the Economic Security for New Parents Act, a proposal for paid family leave that... Read More

Corporations have always been “creatures of the State,” as Teddy Roosevelt once called them. But they have become a kind of... Read More

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new budget forecasts this summer that show the... Read More

In the great economic battle of the past decade, the winner is the tried and true — in a rout.After the 2008 financial crisis,... Read More

Antitrust policy doesn't typically make headlines, but two recent cases have raised its profile: a federal court's rejection of the U.S.... Read More

The story is iconic: in 1976, Apple began in a garage in suburban Los Altos, California; in 2018, it became the first $1 trillion company. It... Read More

How do you cover an insurgency like that now roiling the Democratic Party? To date, the mainstream media's treatment would give regular... Read More

Last week the New York Times reported that Puerto Rican authorities had discovered at least ten trailers full of food, medicine,... Read More

The debate about the presidency of the President Donald Trump distracts us from other important issues. One such issue on August 14,... Read More

“Man is no angel.” That's what Balzac tells us in Père Goriot. Rather, man is “sometimes more of a hypocrite... Read More

The most remarkable thing about last week's rejection by Missouri voters of a right-to-work law enacted by the Republican-run state... Read More

If there is mud on the floor, they say in the shale industry, that means cash is coming in the door. That is, when workers are out in the... Read More

IN ITS FIRST few seconds, a new television advertisementtargeting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to be an appeal for increased... Read More