Timothy Carney

4 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Timothy Carney

Imagine a couple planning a family trip to the nation’s capital for Independence Day. They book their flight into Dulles and their hotel, and they start to plan their local transportation. They learn that Dulles has gotten a Metro station since the last time they visited, so they do some research.

5 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Timothy Carney

Federal courts have ruled that President Donald Trump did not have legal authority to impose his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs, nor his earlier tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China.

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Timothy Carney

The logic of our age doesn’t allow for standards of dress, yet all of our sensibilities tell us that certain attire is inappropriate in certain circumstances. “My body, my choice” is a mantra that in elite circles has become a dogma, yet nobody really believes that what you do with your body in public is your business alone. An airplane, where strangers, often from different cultural milieux, are shoved in close confines for hours, is a good testing ground for our hyperindividualistic ideas.

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Timothy Carney

Family policy is in the news these days, as both Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly keen on spending money and tweaking policies for the benefit of parents and children. While Republicans talk about getting couples to have more babies, and Democrats talk about getting women into the office full time, a more immediate concern of family policy may be the thriving of children: How much are students learning? How healthy and well-fed are our children?

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Timothy Carney

Republicans from wealthy congressional districts in high-tax states threatened to kill President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” if they could not tack on a massive tax break for their wealthy constituents. They got their way in the bill that passed in the House on Thursday morning. The matter in question is the deductibility of state and local taxes — the SALT deduction.