DOGE has already accomplished a lot. Elon Musk needs to decide if the operation aims to be a change agent or a chaos agent. If it wants change, then it needs congressional help.

The irony is this: Progressives, who believe in using government to do good things, have built a system that renders government incompetent. But now the culture may be shifting again.

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is ...

Close-up of Energy Star logo. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images. Energy Star is more than a label. It's infrastructure. As of 2024, the EPA reports that the program saves American families an ...

The courts can do only so much when the goal of imposing a policy isn’t to win so much as it is to break things and, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” to “let other ...

I’m talking about any practice—regulatory, contract negotiation, anything—involving the government. Firms can and do have productive and respectful relationships with the government.

U.S. agencies maintain an inconsistent patchwork of policies relating to the DOGE leader’s demand that all federal employees submit weekly emails listing their accomplishments.

In recent weeks, President Trump has signed orders targeting several law firms. Some lawyers warn that the president's assault on the legal profession threatens the rule of law itself.

In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government collected around $80 billion in tariffs and fees, a trifle next to the $2.5 trillion that comes from individual income taxes and the $1.7 ...

What you’re left with then, Cohen noted, is a government-supported private company with higher prices and reduced services. Or in other words, a worse version of Amtrak than exists today.