The House GOP tax plan broadens the tax base more than expected, but doesn’t produce the results that should buy.
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A skeptical view of the Mueller investigation
Given his charge, you’d think Mueller’s first big splash would have something to do with Russian interference in the election. It wasn’t.
Taking Grijalva and his budget seriously
The budget resolution of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which Grijalva co-chairs, shows where Democrats would lead the country if they regain power.
Senate budget resolution reveals dysfunction
A budget resolution shouldn’t be just a mechanism to avoid a filibuster, and shouldn’t be passed after the budget year has already begun.
I told Paul Ryan not to do this
A Democratic television ad against Martha McSally doesn’t even mention her. It’s all an attack against Ryan, who cast himself as the villain in our campaign melodrama by agreeing to become House Speaker.
On tax reform, liberals win Round One
GOP needs to decide if tax reform is about growth, or is bound by redistributionist constraints.
The left will re-elect Trump
The NFL flap illustrates how the left’s indiscriminate charges of racism will re-elect Trump.
John McCain’s Senate fantasy
McCain is on a mission to redeem the U.S. Senate. But what about his commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare?
Trump’s foreign policy incoherence in full bloom
Trump’s U.N. speech demonstrates that his foreign policy is entirely situational and ad hoc.
Speculative nonsense about Graham-Cassidy
Virtually all the criticisms of Graham-Cassidy are wrong. But that doesn’t mean it should pass.