My best friend died last week. And I don’t know if I will ever get over it. His name was Rick Carter, and we became friends 64 years ago when we were both in the first grade. Our friendship ...

As this year comes to a close, I want to end on a note of confidence — confidence in our country, confidence in our people and confidence in the democratic ideals that have guided us for nearly two ...

In the navy and orange afterglow of Sunday’s shootout loss to the San Francisco 49ers — the kind of ballgame your father’s Chicago Bears and his father’s aren’t accustomed to being in — there was a ...

At this year’s Texas Energy Summit in Austin, one topic dominated every hallway conversation: the strain that large power users — especially data centers — are putting on the grid. We focused on a ...

When 196 nations adopted the 2015 Paris climate accord, the UK prime minister at the time, David Cameron, wrote on Twitter: “Our grandchildren will see we did our duty." Ten years on, what would those ...

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Trump, Trump and more Trump. There's no way around it: This past year was dominated by the country's 47th president, from Inauguration Day to Christmas and every news cycle in between. Sure, 2025 was ...

Trump’s foreign policy unites the hawkish and restrainer wings of his coalition.

Laura Saunders has long specialized in writing about taxes, first at Forbes and since 2009 for the Wall Street Journal. “Taxes sit squarely at the intersection of economics and politics, with ...