Op/Ed

President Trump has just slapped a 25 percent tariff on about $50 billion worth of Chinese products. His complaint is that China imposes significantly higher tariffs on the U.S. than the U.S. imposes on China. According to the World Trade Organization, the president is correct. 

If Social Security must pay out more than it receives, which the trustees say will happen this year for the first time since 1982, the government cannot draw from other assets because doesn’t have any.

The good news is that state-level Democrats can rattle the single-payer saber in the hope of attracting progressive voters, but they can't do much about it.

If a new NAFTA doesn't improve intellectual property protection, it's not a better deal.

If South Dakota wins, all of us may confront tax demands from states and localities we've never visited and have nothing to do with.

The recent U.S. gas and oil boom will help fill any impending gaps in the global energy supply.

Democrats are doing their best to blame the current president for a problem that is entirely of their own making: Under ObamaCare the individual health insurance market began to collapse long before Trump became a factor.

Russian internet trolls didn’t limit their mischief to the last presidential election.

The filibuster must be reformed, and Republicans should do it while they can still dictate the new rule.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, at the request of the Justice Department, has instructed the U.S. Census Bureau to include a question on the 2020 decennial census asking whether the respondent is a U.S. citizen.