Five years ago, in a maneuver that some of us regarded as a troubling move for a federal government swimming in red ink, Congress decided to temporarily supersize the subsidy on student loans.

Inspired by President Obama’s cheap election-year politicking, Congress has launched into a frenzied, bipartisan panderfest over the Stafford loan program. Late last week, an emotional House speaker John Boehner led House Republicans to vote for an Obama-proposed giveaway he’d denounced just a few days previously.For those who don’t...

Before Congress creates a new entity that adds to the alphabet soup of regulatory bodies in Washington, it should take a good, long look in the mirror.

During the last thirty years,most of the country has had several years that were cooler or wetter than 2004, but never have smog levels been anywhere near this low.

Activists continue to present misleading accounts of air quality issues despite the decline of ozone smog levels.

The nation sorely needs an honest assessment of air pollution, which would be aided by greater skepticism from journalists about air pollution claims.

Environmentalists, regulators, health scientists, and journalists create the appearance that harm from air pollution is much greater and more certain than suggested by the underlying evidence.