Author: James S. Robbins

A recession is defined as much by politics as by economics. If you want to know if the economy is healthy, ask the American people.

It’s easy to poke fun at experts who get things wrong. But it’s less amusing when the government can’t get it right.

The U.S. could create stability for a price, but not transform a country shaped by centuries of ingrained traditions. Nor should we have tried.

Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “I don’t do quagmires,” but quagmires did him. Yet there is more to his career than the Iraq War.

With the death of bipartisanship in our politics, it is a bad idea to end cloture in the Senate. Mend it, don’t end it.