From the Wall Street Journal, a familiar story of medical pricing mischief:" Michael Frank...had his left hip replaced in 2015. The Manhattan hospital charged roughly $140,000. The insurance company paid a discounted rate of about $76,000, and his share—a 10% copay, plus a couple of uncovered expenses—was a bit more than $8,000."

Students in Washington, D.C. have been making large gains on NAEP, and many credit the transformation of the teaching profession that has taken place in DCPS over the past decade.

Here’s hoping that someone turned on a recorder when President Trump met with his Supreme Court finalists, for I’m guessing that in at least three instances the conversation went something like the Princeton interview scene in “Risky Business.”

At a Liberty Fund conference late last year, a new friend recommended that I read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 commencement address at Harvard. It was in large part his critique of Western, and especially U.S., society. I had read it decades earlier but had no clear memory of it. So I reread it twice.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul explains why he thinks a one-on-one meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin is a bad idea.

Hoover Institution fellow Henry Miller discusses his American Greatness article "USDA Moves to End Rent-Seeking in Poultry Industry."

A surprise shoutout from President Donald Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominee to one of the high court’s liberal justices proved to be a rare note of civility amid the partisan rancor from the left surrounding the pick.

The meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this week comes on the heels of a turbulent NATO summit that saw the American president butting heads with the other European leaders. In an era where Trump seems to be combative with allies and collegial with adversaries, the world will be watching attentively.