As you may have heard, Democrat Doug Jones schlonged Theocrat Roy Moore for Jeff Sessions’s seat representing Alabama in the United States Senate. That means that for the next couple of weeks before Jones is seated (not clear yet exactly how long), Republicans have 52 votes in the Senate. …

Health care policy, like tax policy, is difficult. One of the reasons it’s difficult is that policy choices can interact in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. …

As a part of their continuing war on higher education, Republicans have made taxing university endowments a part of their new tax bill. This, of course, has triggered the liberal elite and even the conservative elite into outrage. It may be true that this part of the bill is inspired…

The Republican Party’s outlook has taken a decided downturn in the last week. Last Tuesday, Democrats won all of the elections they had to win, almost all of the elections they hoped to win, and quite a few they thought were impossible to win. Last Thursday, allegations against the Republican…

A friend recently sent me an essay by Kevin D. Williamson, the National Review writer famous for his willingness to pathologize poor whites in the same way that many conservative writers pathologize poor blacks. As a representative of the “from the southerly side of the class line” himself, Williamson feels…

You may remember that President Trump ended Cost Sharing Reduction payments in an attempt to destroy Obamacare and force Democrats to come begging for a deal. In fact, the exact opposite has happened. Democrats now have more leverage than ever before — far from making the Obamacare exchanges implode, insurance…

One of the basic assumptions I’ve maintained since the election is that partisanship is the strongest force in politics today. From this followed a belief that Republicans in Congress would be extremely reluctant to break with President Trump. With occasional exceptions, that belief has mostly been proven correct. Though many…