Flake proposes that congressional approval be required before a president can impose tariffs on national security grounds. That’s the least Congress can do to reassert its authority in this area.
Category Archives: International and national
Trump boosts free trade … in other countries
Other countries are rapidly signing agreements, while what Trump wants on trade remains unclear.
Domestic politics cloud clear thinking about Russia
Relations with Russia should be grounded in three realities, which are being overshadowed by domestic political eruptions.
AZ should follow CA’s lead on digital privacy
Congress should pass a law protecting personal digital data as a property right, but won’t. Arizona should follow California’s lead and pass one of our own.
Trump is mostly right about NATO
European democracies have the resources to provide for their own collective security. Now, they should develop the will.
More at stake than Roe in Kennedy’s replacement
Is there still hope for a federal judiciary that plays the role the founders intended?
U.S.-Mexico relations after Lopez Obrador
The U.S. should seal off access to our formal economy for future illegal workers from Mexico through E-Verify and otherwise give Lopez Obrador space to do what he can.
Trump-Kim meeting was a useful start
Suspending missile tests is a gain and demystifying presidential summitry has merit.
Revealing votes by Lesko, Sinema
What kind of a conservative will Lesko be in Congress? Where is Sinema a centrist, and where isn’t she?
Start with limiting North Korea’s missiles
There’s an imaginable nuclear deal with North Korea. But it isn’t the one the Trump administration says it will insist on.