The Bradford Era

WASHINGTON — Trade wars, encouraged by President Trump, are inching closer. The White House has rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agree...

Tax “reform,” starting with taxes on business, seems to be on everyone’s agenda, and it may be a place where the incoming Trump administration and its...

One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by t...

Our thinking about productivity is cockeyed, according to a new economic report. We’re ignoring the real productivity problem: surging costs for healt...

Regardless of who wins this bitterly contested election, the victor will face the same basic, daunting task: reconciling the vast promises that have b...

Regardless of who wins the election, the press — or, at any rate, what used to be called the “mainstream” media — may be the big loser. Donald Trump i...

Guess what? A President Trump could adopt his new trade agenda without any authorization from Congress — and this could trigger a global trade war and...

America is on the mend. Witness the good news in the latest version of the nation’s “economic report card”: the Census Bureau’s annual estimates of th...

If you’re like me, you regard the decline in book reading as another sign of the cultural rot that is eating away at the American character. Why read ...