Brian McNicoll

Read the latest stories and analysis from Brian McNicoll.

A for sale sign is posted outside a home

Don’t cut corners to ease the cost of mortgage lending

Brian McNicoll · June 15, 2026 9:21 am

International Brotherhood of Teamsters president Sean O'Brien.

Fairness and Justice

Union leaders mislead members to fund influence and self-indulgence

Brian McNicoll · April 8, 2026 8:00 am

A sign showing directions outside a hospital.

Reduce healthcare costs with transparency

Brian McNicoll · February 25, 2026 6:00 am

Erik Cordova inspects a steel pipe at the Borusan Mannesmann Pipe manufacturing facility on June 5, 2018, in Baytown, Texas.

Opinion (Restoring America)

US Steel will be stronger, more agile if Nippon Steel deal goes through

Brian McNicoll · February 23, 2024 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Is Biden’s Commerce Department unknowingly taxing US companies for China’s benefit?

Brian McNicoll · August 21, 2023 12:09 pm

Postal Service’s backdoor bailout

Brian McNicoll · December 23, 2021 12:00 am

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chair of the Senate Finance Committee, stops for a reporter as the Senate votes to advance the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021.

With drug price reform proposals, Democrats seek a solution without a problem

Brian McNicoll · August 31, 2021 4:00 am

Dr. Joel Policzer checks on Walter Norton in this Oct. 30, 2009 photo, in the hospice wing of an Oakland Park, Fla. hospital. Most of Policzer's patients have made no end-of-life decisions. Democrats in the U.S. House are trying to nudge more Americans to make their end-of-life decisions.

Hospice care needs some help from Congress

Brian McNicoll · October 17, 2019 4:00 am

Enough details have emerged about Russian involvement in the election, and possible subterfuge by the Obama administration, that legislation has been introduced to address some of the shortcomings of U.S. intelligence law. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Bipartisan bill would address Obama administration intel abuses

Brian McNicoll · October 26, 2017 4:01 am

In many places, Amazon locates a depot near a post office, presorts the packages, and delivers them to the post office. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

For every Amazon package it delivers, the Postal Service loses $1.46

Brian McNicoll · September 1, 2017 4:01 am

Johnson & Johnson’s bill to squash competition in the contact lens market

Brian McNicoll · June 6, 2017 4:01 am

Exxon Mobil sign

Liberal AGs’ Exxon Mobil holy war running out of steam

Brian McNicoll · June 2, 2017 4:01 am