If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?

Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.