The president should embrace the proposal for a payroll tax holiday. It would immediately reduce the cost of job creation.

This week's Moscow meetings may well convince many Americans that their president's "reset button" was a dangerous toy indeed.

Congress has pushed the FDA too far with its new rules.

Losing money is embarrassing. And an embarrassed Jamie Dimon publicly admitted that J.P. Morgan Chase goofed. Three senior executives lost their jobs as a result. But politicians and regulators in Washington are rushing to leverage the bank's misfortune for their own gain.

Pushing government decisions down to the lowest democratic level possible — while protecting basic civil rights — guarantees that more people will have a say in how they live their lives.

The goals of campaign finance regulation will inevitably be overwhelmed by unanticipated effects, rendering it either ineffective or pernicious.

New York Times natural-gas reporter Ian Urbina last week launched another salvo in his crusade against the shale-gas industry, and demonstrated once more why there is little trust of him at USDA.