Decision highlights the incoherence of administration policy on both China and energy.
Category Archives: International and national
Brnovich misplays Trump endorsement of Masters
Trump attacks Brnovich. Brnovich responds by sucking up to Trump.
What’s missing in the Arizona GOP primaries
Youngkin, Kemp and Raffensperger show that there is a path to victory for Republican candidates running independent of Trump. So, why aren’t any Arizona GOP candidates running in that lane?
Populist right opposes aid to Ukraine, but reasons are muddled
Arizona Republicans in Congress — Biggs, Gosar and Lesko — dissent from the broad bipartisan consensus on assisting Ukraine.
What the draft abortion decision means, and doesn’t mean
Returning the issue to the democratic processes isn’t an attack on democracy. By stressing that abortion is different, the tentative court majority indicated an intent to go no further regarding court-created rights.
The dilemma for Arizona swing voters in 2022
Validate an unsatisfactory Biden presidency or strengthen Trump’s place in our politics. That’s the choice Republican candidates are giving swing voters, who hold the balance of power in the state.
What Biggs’ America First Contract says about him and today’s populist right
Biggs had a chance to be a principled conservative voice in Congress. He choose Trumpism instead.
What we can learn from the French presidential election about neutralizing extremism
In the U.S. two-party system, there’s no easy route to the ballot for a candidate from the abandoned middle.
Why are Republicans interrupting the Democratic meltdown on immigration?
Overpromising what state action, such as Ducey’s Border Strike Force, can do distracts from the real issues, both substantively and politically.
Yellen points toward a post-Ukraine trade policy
Reorienting supply chains away from countries that pose geopolitical risk is an intriguing concept, but the details would be difficult.