For the cause of fixing the finances of the federal government, DOGE is a destructive and distracting sideshow.
Trump abdicates U.S. role as leader of the free world
Now that U.S. commitments are untrustworthy, there will be a geopolitical realignment among other democratic countries.
Give the market a chance on housing
Only freeing up supply and demand can produce the volume and diversity of housing stock required to broadly restore affordability. Politically, it’s worth holding out for.
The Full Trump
Trump is duplicating Biden’s mistake of misreading election results.
Hobbs should accede on rural groundwater management
The GOP proposal is good enough to give it a chance, and much better than a continued stalemate.
Reasonable, and unreasonable, state and local roles in immigration enforcement
If American politics were healthier, this wouldn’t be such a controversy.
The Hobbs political tightrope
How does she work with a GOP Legislature that won’t work with her?
Both proponents and opponents misrepresenting the Laken Riley Act
Democrats cease holding immigration enforcement hostage to legalization.
The politics of a protective tariff don’t work for Trump
The costs of a protective tariff are immediate and traceable, while any benefits are long-term and diffuse.
Democrats didn’t have that bad of an election
Given the adverse presidential playing field, Democrats won a lot of races, nationally and in Arizona, that they easily could have lost, and arguably should have.