By Alex J. Pollock
The biggest question with the $10 trillion U.S. housing finance sector is what to do with the government-sponsored enterprises that have recently attained even greater monopoly power. Here’s a way to move beyond the political stalemate.
The Left says the government should spend more, but the Right says it should spend less. It sounds like an ideological ...
The growing list of executive-branch scandals in recent weeks and months, along with the bipartisan backlash they’ve generated, seem to confirm a point the political Right has been making: ...
After a period of pushback, proponents of austerity are retaking the intellectual high ground and promoting responsible ...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — Perched on a knoll rising gently above a man-made pond in Brussels’s stunning Parc Leopold sits the stately five-story granite building that once housed Europe’s ...
‘Any social order . . . which can function well with a minimum of leadership will be an anathema to the intellectual.’
Hardly anyone had heard of Eric Hoffer when his first book, The True Believer, was published in 1951. In fact, when Harper & Brothers was considering accepting it, they asked Norman Thomas, the ...
Toward a deeper gratitude for our freedom, with a clean pride in a country that has spilled so much of its blood for ...
Editor’s note: this article first appeared in THE AMERICAN on May 27, 2011. When I was a kid we called it Decoration Day and, in a practice observed since 1868, it always came on May 30. ...
Jim Wallis’s new book asks readers to consider what each side of the political aisle gets right and to recall an ...
Rather than focusing primarily on questions about the Right and Left, Jim Wallis’s new book, On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the ...
Many lessons should be drawn from the U.S. experience in Iraq. Unfortunately, we’re not learning what we should.
Peggy Noonan has earned a reputation as one of America’s most influential columnists, and her recent Wall Street Journal article “Can the Republican Party Recover From Iraq?” was ...
One of the greatest uses of scandal is to vividly demonstrate what new laws are needed and to create the political ...
Washington is suddenly awash with major scandals. The IRS has been caught abusing its powers regarding conservative organizations. The AP had its phone records seized without a court order. The White ...
Racial prejudice plays a very small role in American politics, but a highly disciplined sense of self-interest on the ...
A question that has frequently been raised in presidential election campaigns is: are American voters racist? The way this question is framed almost always centers on a concern that some Americans ...
Sheryl Sandberg's runaway best-selling book Lean In has managed to offend both the Left and the Right. Sandberg touts ...
Yesterday evening, the Independent Women's Forum (the anti-NOW for conservative and libertarian females) hosted a panel discussion in downtown Washington on the topic of Facebook chief operating ...
Paper is becoming less important in some respects, but its strengths — prestige, utility, permanence, and security — ...
Is paper obsolete? A Canadian who had a stash of new-style polymer $100 bills probably would disagree. He kept them in a coffee can near a radiator and they melted. Others have complained that ...