9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (384+ words) In October 2020, from inside the White House, I stopped attending the Coronavirus Task Force meetings. I wrote to the vice president’s office in frustration that I had no time to spend teaching people who were “refractory to facts.” I did…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (614+ words) CMS is finishing work on a rule that would limit what states can route to providers through Medicaid managed care. The agency proposed it in May, closed comments in July, and Administrator Mehmet Oz has framed the whole effort around…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (418+ words) With the primary season now largely behind us and November ballots taking shape, voters are beginning to make a more consequential choice about who they trust to address the issues affecting their families. Affordability, a term voters know well despite…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (336+ words) Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (21+ words) Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (632+ words) Seattle's interim police chief Andre Sayles has been ruthlessly mocked this week for referring to "trigger pullers" when discussing plans to proactively attack violent crime in the city. As the New York Post reports, a lot of folks have accused…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (362+ words) James P. Sutton is a Morning Dispatch Reporter, based in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2024, he most recently graduated from University of Oxford with a Master’s degree in history. He has also taught high school history in suburban Philadelphia,…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (749+ words) A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (151+ words) Scott Bessent boasting “I am the house” and trying to talk down the dollar is the classic hubris of a central planner. As Martin Armstrong points out, we saw this exact political vanity with the 1985 Plaza Accord—and the market…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (370+ words) With all that most of us have to do there is only so much that most of us can absorb or that most of us have time for in our busy days, our normal days. I would term this desired…...