PolicyBytes

A step-in-the-right-direction budget—if the reality matches the rhetoric, which it often doesn't.

Democratic presidential candidates fly to campaign stops in private jets to scold the rest of us about our carbon footprint.

Governments can't act as quickly as private sector drug companies when it comes to finding a vaccine for the coronavirus or any other epidemic.

At least some World Economic Forum attendees think we have reached "peak laissez-faire," meaning it's time to give government more control over our economies and our liberties. 

One of the president's top trade advisors sees nothing but positives from imposing tariffs. A more balanced view sees some positives, but many negatives. 

Who could imagine 10 years ago that the Middle East could be in chaos and it would have virtually no impact on gasoline prices? Welcome to the age of fracking.

The global climate change conference ends in disappointment when it becomes obvious that talk is much cheaper than actions.

The House impeachment effort is political grandstanding. Here's how you know.

Taxpayers send hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal government and then beg the feds to give some of it back. Why not eliminate the middle man?

President Trump is taking steps to increase price transparency in health care. We agree with the goal, but one needs to ask why prices aren't already transparent, as they are in the rest of the economy.