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.
Category Archives: International and national
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.
Title 42 shouldn’t be part of the immigration debate
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.
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.