Rather than relish Macron’s rebuke of Trump, there should be a bipartisan discussion of realigning our international role with our true security interests.
Category Archives: International and national
Where’s the next Paul Ryan?
With trillion-dollar deficits just around the corner and Paul Ryan retiring, who will lead the cause of fixing the finances of the federal government?
Should the United States become a giant Switzerland?
Our international engagements, in Syria and elsewhere, runs risks hugely disproportionate to our true security interests.
Congress should pass a digital property bill of rights
Rather than a Facebook show trial, Congress should give individuals an enforceable property right to their personal data.
The right reason for a trade war with China
The objective shouldn’t be to manage trade with China. It should be to protect the integrity of the U.S. system of democratic capitalism.
Flake’s thin case against Trump
Flake is trying to make an ideological case against Trump, but his real beef is over behavior.
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.