Before I turn to Jared Kushner, let me ask: Do you believe the U.S. government does the right thing all or most of the time? The Gallup organization started asking this question in 1963, when more than 70 percent of Americans said they did. Since then, the percentage has steadily declined. By ...

Donald Trump’s announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other countries has aroused little enthusiasm and much criticism. It evidently prompted the resignation of Gary Cohn as head of his National Economic Council. It has also prompted free trade-minded ...

or 19 years, the Copper Country ISD has hosted a Science Fair on the campus of Michigan Tech. During last year’s Science Fair, it was made known that the event could be ending because the state was in the process of eliminating math/science centers and moving to STEM centers. At that time, ...

The hard left is always so angry, and uses emotion to great effect in our modern politics. And shame — through social and mainstream media voices — is the left’s whip, keeping Americans in line. Most Americans understand the penalty for thought crimes on issues ranging from ...

No, President Trump, it’s not true that if you tax imported steel, we “will have protection for the first time in a long while.” The opposite is true. If you raise tariffs on steel and aluminum, you punish consumers. Yes, such tariffs also punish Chinese producers and protect some ...

Language matters. For example, the way our society’s leaders choose to comment on the health of America’s economy can either make clear to us commoners what’s going on — or obfuscate, hide and even lie about the reality we face. Consider the most common measurement that the media, ...