Louisiana actually grew, from 2010 to 2020, which was an unexpected turn of events considering the multitude of recent reports (mostly post-2015) that showed net losses in residents - mostly moving to Texas.

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we hear more and more about American decadence. Some point merely to recent policies such as our foreign endeavors in the Middle East. Others, however, take their critique to deeper and darker depths. America was born to fail, we now hear. Scholars and pundit…

The past couple of decades have not been kind to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) financial situation. America’s mail carrier has been bleeding red ink, shedding more than $80 billion since 2017. In the past year alone, the agency lost an astounding $9.2 billion. Postal experts and …

Ida felt different.

In contemporary Washington, legitimately bipartisan government reform measures are an endangered species.

Back when I was an energy and environmental reporter, I took some time away from the newsroom to accept a fellowship with the American Political Science Association. The fellowship placed me on Capitol Hill, where I worked on climate change and energy issues in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“The Full-Dinner Pail” was a campaign slogan utilized by President William McKinley and other Republicans to symbolize support for working Americans. It is often assumed that Republicans are opposed to labor, but this notion is false.

Even before the events of this past week, the United States was already facing a cascading set of challenges this summer, from surging consumer prices to the spiking of COVID-19 cases. Then, when Kabul fell, it became all the more clear that our political class had bungled another task to wh…

The war in Afghanistan will go down in history as one of America’s most disappointing and futile foreign policy endeavors. Even after 20 years in the Middle Eastern nation, the U.S. failed to keep the Taliban from swiftly reclaiming power. The biggest tragedy of this failed mission, of cours…

While no one disputes the high cost of health care, it seems everyone has an opinion about what would happen to prescription drug costs if pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) middlemen were required to act in the interest of Louisiana employers and our hard-working families.

The national debt is rapidly nearing $29 trillion, which is 25% more than our entire economy, and is orders of magnitude higher if you consider unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. This threatens life as we know it and must be addressed now.

Should the government be able to decide what apps your smartphone can download? With the recently introduced Open App Markets Act, the federal government is looking to put itself right in the middle of the fight between app developers and mobile operating systems.

Under the Biden administration, the United States is on the path toward becoming a welfare state fully entrenched in waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement. President Joe Biden plans to expand welfare to almost half of the country’s working adults through the deceptively named American Famili…

Friday, August 6, was the 15th annual International Beer Day. There is no better way to lift spirits after such a long period of stress, uncertainty, and disruption of daily lives across the world than enjoying a beer. Since its inception in 2007, the event has gone global and is now celebra…

Recently, C-SPAN released its 2021 Presidential Rankings Survey and President Herbert Hoover was ranked near the bottom. Hoover’s poor ranking is no surprise as he is often viewed as a failure or below average.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and 22 other Republican senators today urged President Biden to reverse his decision to call upon the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies to increase oil production in response to rising gas prices.

Even Staush Gruszynski didn’t want this to happen.

As America begins to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview, the lesson from this once-in-a-generation crisis couldn’t be clearer: We need less, not more, central planning in our lives.

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in the Advocate.

Even as America emerges from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care remains a hot-button issue on Capitol Hill and across the country. Although lawmakers widely agree that patients deserve better access to care and lower health care costs across the board, they continue to pus…

After months of debating infrastructure, federal lawmakers may be turning their attention to a new subject: Power plants and the utilities that deliver electricity to homes and businesses.

Imagine you own a modest boat that you like to take out on the lake when you go fishing. Your boat serves its purpose – it has space for a case of cold ones and enough room for you and your fishing buddies. It takes some work, but you’re able to maintain her and make repairs pretty much on y…

Costs for medical care are already too high, but in the past legislative session legislators considered a bill that would have added extra costs to medical care even though hardworking families across Louisiana are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, lawmakers stood up for pa…

This year’s federal deficit is set to match the entire 1996 federal budget, adjusted for inflation. Despite such overwhelming spending, Democrats in Congress have proposed an unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget, in addition to the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that failed its first Senate…

It is often forgotten, but America’s conservative tradition was not based on free trade, but rather economic nationalism. The American System became the basis of conservative economic policy. This economic philosophy was developed by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and the Feder…

The Keystone Pipeline System was supposed to create 11,000 American jobs in 2021, but President Joe Biden revoked the permit for the project. Now the company in charge is suing the U.S. government for $15 billion.

Polls have lost a bit of their luster in recent years.

The email smelled as bad as week-old fish: It was a screenshot of a $1,000 cellphone I had supposedly bought on Amazon.

To millions of Americans requiring medical treatment during the coronavirus pandemic, telehealth services have provided a safe and affordable alternative to the status-quo of in-person appointments. The need was immense.

The internet is a fascinating place.

Critics of recent federal legislation pushing broadband deployment worry that a component of the bill dealing with mapping data will result in a patchwork approach to determining which areas of the country lack sufficient high-speed internet.

Critics say the BRIDGE Act, a $40 billion legislative bill intended to boost broadband access across the U.S., could actually exacerbate the digital divide due to some questionable provisions regarding unserved and underserved communities.

Michigan lawmakers passed laws in the past two years to eliminate red tape and limit government reach. The legislators established rules to ensure federal broadband money goes to private providers expanding in unserved areas while prohibiting government-owned networks from receiving the fund…

“You know,” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy is telling RealClearPolitics after balking at the administration’s latest COVID vaccine push and after all but telling President Joe Biden to pound sand, “my dad had polio.”

The crisis of illegal immigration – to give this calamity its true name – is growing increasingly grave. The reason is no mystery. The Biden administration replaced policies that staunched the illegal flow of migrants with policies that actually encourage it.

The Supreme Court on Thursday correctly concluded that states could enact commonsense and necessary protections to ensure the integrity of their electoral systems. States like Georgia, Iowa and Florida can rest assured that specious challenges to their legitimate efforts to guarantee the san…

On June 17, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the judiciary would not overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA; aka Obamacare). That task would fall to Congress while the executive branch has some room to tinker with things like eligibility rules and implementation of mandates. Unfortunate…

Colorado’s two largest universities – the University of Colorado and Colorado State University – recently announced they will be increasing the price of tuition by around 3% next year, after years of holding the line against higher costs.

It is up to every president to craft a sensible regulatory agenda that takes into account the full costs and benefits of new rules. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden’s recently released regulatory agenda threatens to tip the scales in favor of a larger, less accountable government.

After a year of violence and unrest, large American cities serve as a cautionary tale for the progressives in Washington who want to move the country further to the left. The Democrats’ airtight lock on the urban vote has allowed political leaders to pursue ideological agendas without fear o…

Soaring consumer prices and stubbornly high unemployment are the hallmarks of the Biden economy.

With high-profile attacks disrupting food and fuel supplies in the last few weeks, cybersecurity is justifiably front and center in the minds of Americans. In fact, cyber attacks were a main point raised by President Joe Biden in the recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Offic…

There is a tempest brewing at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Recently, the agency opted to approve aducanumab, which is the first drug on the market potentially capable of slowing down Alzheimer’s disease. The medication was approved amid considerable controversy with many detractor…

As the economy slowly but surely recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, businesses are desperate to hire back workers who were told to go home during the height of lockdown restrictions. In a remarkable turnaround, there has already been a flurry of wage hikes, increases in signing bonuses,…

Andrew Mellon, who was considered the best Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton, served in the presidential administrations of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Prior to his service as Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon was a successful financier and busine…

By any standard, the London meeting of finance ministers of the Group of Seven leading Western economies a week before the G7 leaders’ summit was historic. By committing to transformative structural change to meet net-zero greenhouse gas targets and other environmental objectives, G7 finance…

Livingston Parish government officials decided not to do their job in 2016, and we are now being punished for their negligence.

Recently, Congressman Garret Graves visited the border to get a firsthand look, along with other Washington, D.C. officials, at the crisis unfolding.

Anthony Fauci’s emails have been released and they tell an interesting tale about the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. One particular email stood out to me from Fauci to Sylvia Burwell discussing masks.

In the last State of the Union Address of his first term, then-President Bill Clinton declared to Congress – and the American people – that “the era of big government is over.” Clinton, a Democrat, in tandem with a Republican Congress would end up balancing the budget by the end of his time …