It’s fair for Republicans to use immigration as an issue against Biden and Democrats. But misusing a public health measure for immigration control shouldn’t be part of it.
Category Archives: International and national
The need to reorient American foreign policy after Ukraine
The Russia-China authoritarian alliance shrinks the purportedly necessary trade-off between our interests and our values.
The rise of the populist right in the GOP
The dominant populist right doesn’t have the same respect for, and deference to, free markets as the diminished small government, free market conservatives. Examples from the Arizona Legislature.
On earmarks, Sinema and Kelly are no McCain and Flake
With $30 trillion in debt, what’s the federal government doing funding traffic lights and local jail air conditioning?
The limits on U.S. support for Ukraine
The risks to the United States from more direct intervention on behalf of Ukraine are impossible to assess. Staying within the mainstream of the European concensus, as the Biden administration has done, is the right course.
Democrats’ best hope for 2022: Republicans
The political stupidity of the lawsuit by the Arizona Republican Party to have mail ballots declared unconstitutional is difficult to overstate.
Biden’s State of the Union hit an inflation road bump
Inflation is its own truth test. Come November, it will either contine to be elevated and eroding standards of living, or it won’t.
Putin unites Europe
The initiative and resolve a united Europe has mounted against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may be a historical turning point. To be sustainable, however, requires institutional reforms, including of NATO.
Mark Kelly’s political flinch on gas prices
Suspending the gas tax while unnecessarily subsidizing EV charging stations reflects muddled thinking about both inflation and climate change.
Respond to the Russia-China alliance with strategic patience
The joint statement issued by Putin and Xi was a defensive rationalization for the legitimacy of their regimes, not an expression of confidence about the future.