Even Bernie Sanders recognizes this reality.

Most of its 21 recommendations endorse and embrace new and expanded entitlement.

Americans are richer than Europeans, no matter how the data is sliced. And the U.S. advantage almost surely is the result of having more economic freedom and smaller government.

The demographic outlook in Eastern Europe is terrible.

An optimistic note.

Reasons for being a pessimist about the European Union.

What’s the best response to this slow-motion fiscal disaster?

Is a crisis all but inevitable

The comparatively good policies on the other side of the Atlantic.

The United States is more than 50 percent above the average