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.
The DOGE dodge
For the cause of fixing the finances of the federal government, DOGE is a destructive and distracting sideshow.
Trump abdicates U.S. role as leader of the free world
Now that U.S. commitments are untrustworthy, there will be a geopolitical realignment among other democratic countries.
Give the market a chance on housing
Only freeing up supply and demand can produce the volume and diversity of housing stock required to broadly restore affordability. Politically, it’s worth holding out for.
The Full Trump
Trump is duplicating Biden’s mistake of misreading election results.