It’s Congress’s Fault America’s Constitutional system provides for a sharing of power among the three branches of Federal government: the executive (the President); the legislative (Congress); and the judicial (the courts and, ultimately, the Supreme Court). Each branch has the primary responsibility for a...

The Hollowing Out of America There have always been two Americas: the rural, onetime agricultural America; and the urban, once the-center-of-manufacturing America. In 1900, America was a rural country with a rural-to-urban population ratio of 60:40. By 1950, the country had become urbanized with a ratio...

Government Regulation Is government regulation good for America … or bad for America? The answer, of course, is that sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad. How can you tell the difference? The goal of regulation is to both ensure public safety and create a clearly-defined set of operational...