By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

The growing appetite for reliable, clean power has helped thrust nuclear energy back into the national conversation after decades of declining fortunes. Yet this nuclear resurgence faces formidable ...

As laboratories dismiss staff and halt clinical trials, and as countries like France actively recruit American scientists, it’s worth questioning whether short-term budgetary gains justify potentially ...

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration offers a surprising counternarrative—at least in parts. As civil ...

An administration and Congress focused on government efficiency may want to tackle the student loan nonpayment crisis before it is too late.

A scholarly debate over the meaning of the First Amendment’s Press Clause could influence the Associated Press’s battle against the Trump administration for access to the Oval Office and Air Force One ...

There is a great deal of pearl-clutching going on in the halls of intellectual excellence in Washington DC. Donald Trump, we are reliably informed, is definitely going to pull the United States out of ...

There is now an opportunity under current legislation to build an education research center that uses more modern methods for education R&D.

Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...

President Donald Trump said he is “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin for stalling his efforts to end the war in Ukraine. His frustration boiled over after Putin on Friday ...

Colin Dueck joins Robert to discuss the historical contexts and animating ideas behind the Trump administration’s reorientation of American foreign policy. They discuss the evolution of the ...

US Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been directed "to facilitate the closure" of her own department — well, what’s left of it. The Trump administration's vow to essentially eliminate it appears ...