The tax bill had to pass to avoid a $4.5 trillion tax hike next year when the 2017 reforms expire, but as a reform of the post-Covid welfare state it is a disappointment.

Energy reality is at long last dawning in Sacramento as looming refinery closures threaten gasoline shortages and price spikes. Too bad Democrats care more about doing political damage control than improving the state’s business climate.

Reflexively delegitimizing every Trump action isn’t helpful and isn’t journalism. It’s also not democratic, writes Holman Jenkins .

Climate piety is so deeply ingrained in Europe’s political class that many struggle to read the electoral winds and keep insisting on costly policies like “green claims.”.

Watching how legislation gets made is never pretty, but Lisa Murkowski’s haul for Alaska may set some kind of record for pork production.

Real love of country requires humility as well as pride. The conditional patriotism too many Americans preach—that you love your country only if you’re on my side—is itself a contradiction, writes @gerardtbaker.

To preserve Social Security, Congress will need to address the coming insolvency crisis no later than the next president’s first term. Time isn’t on our side, writes William Galston.

It is time to recognize that the government has no business regulating political and campaign speech at all. The justices should prevent those in power from regulating debate about whether they should remain in power, writes Bradley A. Smith.

Why are today’s GOP work requirements weaker than those a Democratic president backed? write Phil Gramm and Michael Solon .

The tax bill had to pass to avoid a $4.5 trillion tax hike next year when the 2017 reforms expire, but as a reform of the post-Covid welfare state it is a disappointment.

Because the federal government owns so much land, selling a mere 0.05% of property managed by the Bureau of Land Management would do enormous good for people struggling to afford homes, write Edward Pinto and @ArthurGailes.

Regulatory ambiguity is the enemy of innovation. Smart crypto legislation can encourage innovation and protect consumers, writes @SenToomey.

The GOP reforms to food stamps and Medicaid are common-sense ideas that have public support, though most voters aren’t hearing a defense from Republicans.

Mamdani is a far graver threat to New York and his party’s national ambitions than his flawed rivals present, writes @jasonrileywsj.

The Supreme Court’s swift intervention to overrule a rogue district court judge avoided a needless political spat that would hurt the judiciary.

Classroom misbehavior has surged since the Covid lockdowns, and some states are responding with changes that will benefit teachers and students.

I have spent a lifetime in scholarship programs and haven’t seen a group as motivated to make the American dream come true as the Dreamers. The Justice Department wants to push them out of school, writes Donald E. Graham.

Congress could put a stop to forum shopping by mandating that the three-judge panel for such cases is selected randomly from a nationwide pool of active trial and appellate judges, writes Nathan Lewin.

A Democratic primary defeat, even in a heavily Democratic city, doesn’t necessarily mean that the game is over. Buffalo might offer its downstate neighbors a road map, writes @jasonrileywsj.

Americans love their states. It reflects something deeper: the abiding truth that our identity and self-government began not in Washington or even Philadelphia, but in the states and communities we call home, writes @RayNothstine.

“People will die” isn’t the policy clincher it seems. Trade-offs can’t be made to disappear by saying the three favorite words of the anti-Trump resistance, writes Holman Jenkins.