It feels like the bad old days of the Bush administration as the whole world lines up to criticize American leadership — or the lack thereof. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the US-backed idea to leverage the EU bailout fund so that the same amount of money could bail out bigger debt disasters was […]

Economic growth is increasingly taking place at the technological frontier. We need policies that keep pushing that frontier forward.

How U.S. ethanol policy creates global food insecurity.

A plan to ditch the income tax, make taxation fairer and aid economic growth all at the same time.

Why have some financial firms weathered the crisis better than others? The answers contain lessons for how to regulate the industry.

The Origin of Species is a better guide to our economy than The Wealth of Nations.

Democratic institutions aren't sufficient in themselves to keep the wealthy few from concentrating political power.

As longtime readers know, I’m not particularly skeptical about climate science, suitably wrapped with the inevitable cautions and caveats about complex natural systems whose history and dynamics are imperfectly understood, but I am deeply skeptical about climate policy.  Green climate policies tend to be otherworldly utopian fantasies like the global carbon treaty or heavy handed, […]

In American states, past voting trends and the number of electoral college votes up for grabs shape presidential candidates’ campaigns, as Gerald Seib describes in the WSJ: The important thing to remember about a presidential election is that it isn’t a contest to win the popular vote nationwide. It is a contest to win in […]

Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayeb, the head of one of the most important centers of learning in the Islamic world, wrote a remarkably tolerant article in the Egyptian government daily newspaper Al-Ahram back in June. Translated excerpts of the article recently appeared at MEMRI: The Koran, which Many Muslims know by heart, affirms that had God […]