Biden has fully embraced the mad goal of giving 98% of the population lavish benefits at no cost. Has anyone noticed that the president has proposed increasing federal spending by nearly $1 trillion a year, while promising that 98% of Americans will pay nothing for it? The very idea would have seemed mad to every previous generation of ...

For the first time in U.S. history, an administration is responding to a crisis with deregulation and decentralization. Washington’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic is upending one of the most durable patterns of American politics. Throughout history, national emergencies have led to a more powerful and centralized federal government and to ...