Every time the government releases major revisions to employment data, a familiar chorus emerges: claims that something must be wrong, that statistics are being manipulated, or that hidden agendas are at work. A government that is consistently mendacious — regardless of which party holds power —

Introduction Central planning — the idea that an economy can be rationally directed from the top down — has long appealed to reformers who seek to eliminate waste, inequality, and uncertainty. Its critics, however, have argued that no government can gather and process the vast, ever-changing

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pushing a new home-entry rule, one Americans might have thought they left behind in the old world. A whistleblower recently exposed an internal memo from ICE’s acting director, claiming that once an immigration judge — an employee of the

President John F. Kennedy once said, “We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence.” President Lyndon B. Johnson sought to meet that challenge by launching the War on Poverty in 1964, insisting that its purpose was not to make

At the end of January, President Trump penned a triumphant op-ed declaring “Mission Accomplished” for the signature economic policy of his second term: tariffs. Unfortunately, his entire victory lap revolved around phony numbers, cherry-picked facts, and a strawman caricature of his critics’ arguments. Trump began by claiming

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested shifting the Federal Reserve from a fixed two-percent inflation target to a broader range. The change may seem minor, but it risks redefining accountability at a moment when inflation has already strained public trust.   Bessent floated the proposal on