The tax code is like daytime television–almost anything done to it would improve it. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Judd Gregg ...

Few phenomena generate as much heat as disputes about current orthodoxies concerning global warming. This column recently reported and commented on some developments pertinent to the debate about ...

George F. Will is not the guy you'd think would be responsible for delivering the most devastating takedown of Vice President Mike Pence you will ever read. And, yet, the conservative columnist's ...

SERVING AS A SURROGATE BOB DOLE DURING BILL Clinton’s debate rehearsals, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was sufficiently ferocious to make Clinton anxious. ON TUESDAY THE INSCRUTABLE ...

SHELDON HACKNEY HEARS AMERICA TALKING AND IS dismayed. He thinks the talk is inexpert and unorganized and needs federal help. Hackney, who heads the National Endowment for the Humanities, wants ...

When Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), the astrophysicist, was asked how many people understood his theory of the expanding universe, he paused, then said, “Perhaps seven.” That may be more ...

The Republicans’ tax legislation is built on economic projections that are as confidently as they are cheerfully made concerning the legislation’s shaping effect on the economy over the next 10 ...

In a trade war, as in a real one, people are wounded by friendly fire from their side. Consider some casualties in Donald Trump's "easy to win" -- his promise ...