Is it a tax cut or avoiding a tax increase? It’s too early for Arizona Democrats to be crying in the beer about the 2026 election.
The Trump endgame: managed trade
The flow of goods across borders will be decided more by agreements between political leaders, and less by the market forces of comparative advantage and consumer preferences.
The Trump blitzkrieg has been a political loser
The body politic might want change, but not chaos.
The sorry state of state government politics, Part II
Is Karrin Taylor Robson faux MAGA or a faux traditional Republican?
The sorry state of state government politics
The brouhaha over a funding shortfall for DD programs is a measure of political incompetence all around.
For congressional Republicans, will enough ever be enough?
Do any of them have a “sacred honor” to pledge?
Tariff tantrums and contradictions
As in geopolitics, the Trump effect will cause a realignment in trade.
Democrats struggle over an opposition strategy
Trump generates his own opposition. Don’t do things that narrow a potentially broad opposition coalition.
Let voters decide about an early ballot cutoff
The trade-off between the speed of knowing the outcome and the convenience of dropping off an early ballot is appropriate to submit to the entire body politic.
The hard and wrong Prop. 123 renewal
GOP legislators support only half of the school choice equation.