It used to be mostly unfair to blame Biden for inflation. It has become less so.
Category Archives: International and national
Biden’s botched Summit for Democracy
An international summit to forge a sense of common purpose among democracies wasn’t the place to try to score domestic political points.
Term limits for justices a better reform than court expansion
A Biden appointed commission points the way to channel reform energy on the left in a more productive direction.
Help wanted: An inflation hawk for the Fed
The inflation blame game stops at a curious spot.
Time to get serious about economic decoupling with China
A recent report offer a useful starting point for the discussion and policy development.
Booting Gosar off committees was a mistake
Gosar’s vile video warranted censure, even explusion. But if he is to remain a member of the body, Democrats shouldn’t strip him of committee assignments. That denies his constitutents equal representation.
Sinema’s big, but dubious, victory on infrastructure
Sinema proved her point about getting results through bipartisanship. Unfortunately, it came at the cost of further erosion of the principle of federalism.
The sorry saga of immigration reform
As illustrated by the latest proposal in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill, on immigration reform both sides never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Problems galore in Sinema’s Medicare drug deal
After the rapid and effective COVID-19 response, you’d think politicians would tread cautiously in giving the private pharmaceutical industry a gigantic shake-up.
AZ GOP candidates for governor not on the Youngkin path
Youngkin won by creating a political brand independent of Trump. All the GOP candidates are on the Trump sycophancy trail.