Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

What do we mean when we talk about “big government”? Conservatives have railed against this enemy for generations, but it is striking how rarely we try to define the term. The conservative movement ...

History could look back on Democrats’ sweeping spending and infrastructure bills in the same fashion as the New Deal programs of the 1930s and Great Society programs of the 1960s. At least that’s what ...

On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd of more than 80,000 at the University of Michigan’s football stadium in Ann Arbor. Having taken the oath of office just six months earlier ...

President Lyndon Baines Johnson showed how governments can drive innovation. Only in the U.S. can a boy born in a rural Texas ...

Along the streets of a once-great American city, the failures of decades-old social policies have been exposed. I have written before about the perverse economic incentives in the Medicaid program ...

Since the implementation of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s, reducing government assistance has become impossible. Society (citizens and corporations alike) has developed a ...