Eric Boehm

A new warning from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy that links alcohol to cancer ought to raise questions about the purpose of such public health

The incoming administration is grappling with uncomfortable political consequences of the tariffs Trump wants to impose.

Hegseth, a veteran and Fox News talking head, is an unorthodox pick to lead the Pentagon.

Why should an unpopular president shape so much policy on his way out?

Lawmakers got what they voted for. TikTok is gone—at least for now.

DOGE won't necessarily have to kill any of Republicans’ sacred cows—but they will have to be put on a diet.

Moments after taking office for the second time, President Donald Trump vowed to "tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens." Alas, that's

Trump is wrong to threaten an ally and prepare to tear up a treaty over a nonexistent threat.

began with his (welcome and necessary) bashing of Bush-era Republicans who led the country into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The most important thing in any name is not what some official institution or a collection of old maps says. Spontaneous order tends to rule the day.