Flake is trying to make an ideological case against Trump, but his real beef is over behavior.
Category Archives: International and national
Leave judges out of immigration debate
Immigration policy should be decided in Congress, not the courts.
If we’re to have a trade war, let it be with China, not Canada
If Trump’s protectionist instincts were focused exclusively on China, they might inadvertently serve the national interest.
To clean up college sports, abolish athletic scholarships
The only way to stop the scandals is to stop being apprenticeship programs for professional sports.
Demonizing the NRA isn’t the the path to gun control
Gun-control politics are actually rather simple: there are more votes against than for. Demonizing the NRA hasn’t changed that.
Dreamers are a victim of the filibuster rule
A bipartisan majority of the Senate voted to give dreamers legal status and a path to citizenship. The filibuster rule killed it.
Trump’s infrastructure plan is awful
Infrastructure is intrinsically local. And the federal government is broke.
Budget deal continues the sleepwalk toward a day of reckoning
The “compromise” of more spending on everything can’t continue indefinitely.
Flake, McCain wrong on Nunes memo
There was stuff going on in the Trump-Russia investigation that the American people should know.