In its effort to increase deportations of migrants, the Trump administration announced Tuesday evening that it would send planeloads to the north African country of Libya.  That appeared to be news to Libya. Run by…

Whatever you think of the National Endowment for the Arts, or federal funding of the arts more generally, surely reasonable Americans all can agree that government agencies should not claw back previously approved grants when…

Republican Senators who hold up a troubling nominee might attract President Trump’s short-term anger, but they’re doing him a long-term favor. So it is with Sen. Thom Tillis’s opposition to Ed Martin, nominated for U.S.…

After six decades of pearly wisdom and investment gems, the news from Omaha hit like a thunderbolt. As a fellow shareholder emailed me after Warren Buffett announced on Saturday that he would retire at the…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing whatever he can to undermine public health. Last week, he ordered his department to undertake a search for alternative measles treatments as the disease…

The first half of the 20th century marked the beginning of a rich tradition of Kansas politicians.    Three figures stand out.   First, Charles Curtis. Born in Topeka, Curtis made history as the first Native…

President Trump last week conceded that his border taxes are economically damaging by softening the blow for auto makers. Or as he put it in a Michigan speech, believe it or not: “We gave them…

As a small-government conservative who supports a leaner and more efficient federal bureaucracy, I have cheered President Donald Trump’s efforts to identify and eliminate fraud and waste in Washington. We’ve been spending ourselves into oblivion…

Since 1935, the Social Security Administration has provided the American people financial protection for millions of citizens, created on the promise that the most vulnerable people in our society should be able to maintain a…

After a month of tumult, investors in American stocks are making peace with the trade war. The S&P 500 index is down by just 2.4% since Donald Trump issued his “Liberation Day” proclamation. Stocks are…