J.D. Tuccille

As I write, Americans are trudging to the polls to mark ovals on paper, touch screens, use ballot-marking devices, and otherwise record their choices for

It turns out that treating half the country with contempt while impoverishing them doesn’t win votes

Control of the presidency and Congress weren't the only important matters on the ballot this week. In Arizona, voters chose to keep Clint Bolick, a

Supposedly targeted at immigrants and travelers, the program endangers everybody's liberty.

President-elect Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is getting a lot of buzz, much of it tentatively hopeful. There's a good

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency a much better means of offsetting tax cuts than economy-killing tariffs

Americans should plan for their futures rather than relying on a nonexistent Social Security “trust fund.”

And they'd better get on it. According to experts, U.S. has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt

Economics likely spelled doom for Harris, but extreme ideology sealed her party's fate.

On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that frees Americans held hostage or unjustly detained overseas from the fear of crushing tax