The federal program has purchased thousands of acres of land and supported more than 41,000 state and local park projects.

When President Donald Trump signed a new agreement to replace NAFTA, a lot of people who depend on borderless commerce — many of them Midwest exporters of manufactured and agricultural goods — breathed a sigh of relief. After 15 months of arduous negotiations, the specter of harmful trade barriers rising on our northern and southern […]

Black Friday is tough on retail workers, but the rest of the year is not so great either.

We’ve seen thousands of sad stories in our time, but the case of a man found in his North Texas apartment three years after his death ranks right up there as one of the saddest. Ronald Wayne White, believed to be a Navy vet working as a defense contractor, was last in contact with his […]

Dr. Mark Flomenbaum has not had a good year.

The United Nations’ Environment Program released a rather dire report Wednesday concluding that by 2030, global production of fossil fuels — extracted coal, oil and natural gas — would be more than double what we can safely consume if we hope to limit the most severe impacts from human-caused global warming. In other words, rather […]

Congress last week stood up for Hong Kong’s threatened freedoms by approving a bill that opens the door to possible sanctions — and at the same time binds the autonomous region up in the U.S.-China trade dispute. The next move belongs to President Trump, who could finally offer Hong Kong’s protesters some badly needed moral […]