Chuck DeVore is the vice president of national initiatives at the Foundation. He writes about the economy and how energy, tax and regulatory policies influence general prosperity, and he frequently appears on Fox News. He also guides the Foundation’s growing national work in criminal justice reform. He authored the book The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America.
The truth is that China’s maritime provocations in the South China Sea will continue until war ensues. As America, and much of the world, remains focused on conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to ramp up its bellicose actions in the South China Sea and in the...
With Treasury markets already nearing the brink, could a cyberattack push them over the edge? A ransomware attack hit China’s biggest bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on Thursday, preventing it from settling some trades in U.S. Treasuries. News of the attack riled some participants in the Treasury market, with news stories citing as...
Editor’s Note: This commentary was published in Arabic. This is a translation. For decades, American foreign policy toward Iran has been caught in a complex web of outdated assumptions and misaligned goals. The United States has traditionally treated Iran as a rational player within the regional and international system, a fallacy that has cast its...
The tumultuous nature of recent elections, particularly the 2020 presidential race, showcased the critical need for attention to election administration. In 2020, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), along with writers at The Federalist, had their social media posts flagged, suppressed, and even censored by a government-nonprofit-industry taskforce supposedly designed to combat election “misinformation” from foreign powers....
If the U.S. truly wishes to deter Iran, it must shift from a focus on hitting Iran’s proxies to targeting the disease itself. Recent events have underscored the urgent need for a reconsideration of America’s Iran policy. In response to constant drone attacks on American bases, which resulted in injuries to more than two dozen U.S. military...
Israel is pleading with more than one million Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City. The vile terrorists in control of that doomed metropolis are telling innocent people to stay put. Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It’s no surprise they’re now using them as human shields. On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces, massing 360,000...
Hamas may be trying to goad Israel into a costly and very bloody urban conflict in Gaza. As a U.S. Army intelligence officer, I was trained to brief the commander on the most likely course of action and the most dangerous course of action. How might that disciplined way of thinking be applied to the conflict...
The Biden administration’s lax approach to border security exacerbates existing threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, and China. There are 32 miles of border separating Gaza from Israel. Since my first visit to that border in 1984, it’s been heavily fortified, with walls, fences, and surveillance systems backed up by soldiers and law enforcement. That system was...
The aftermath of Hamas attacks in Israel on Saturday will ripple around the world from Washington to Beijing and beyond Sabbath tranquility in Israel was ruptured on Oct. 7, marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and 43 years to the day that Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. Early...
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet again displayed his astuteness in the ever-complex game of politics. By making good on his promise to appoint a black woman, Laphonza Butler, to serve the remaining term of the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Newsom has accomplished multiple objectives, setting the stage for his own political ascendancy —...
Whether in Roman times or now, public life entails risks. We can’t let that stop us. The cycles of history move faster today than in the past — and they may not repeat, but they do rhyme. The Roman Republic lasted almost 500 years. But the assassination of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate in 44...
Data and compassion should drive homeless policy, not ideology and political expedience Crushed by the weight of human nature and the harsh light of reality, San Francisco—a city in a state that astonishingly contains nearly 50% of the entire U.S.’s street homeless population, while only making up 12% of the population – is finally waking up to...