Elizabeth Warren’s financing scheme for her Medicare for All plan is a dud. But her challenge about alternatives should be taken up.
Grijalva invents a fossil fuel bogeyman
Notebook: Fossil fuel lobbyists aren’t the ones pushing for uranium mining. And why would Arizona substitute new solar for existing nuclear power? That’s nuts.
Sky Harbor fees are really a liberal tax
Phoenix city hall says it’s a user fee. But it charges commercial transporters for things their passengers don’t use, and disproportionately for the things they do.
Impeachment terrain becomes tricker for Republicans
The revised process House Democrats adopted is fair enough. Now Republicans have to answer tough questions about what Trump did.
Move water to where people want to live
Small projected shortages in a distant future shouldn’t cause such a panic. Treating water more as a market commodity should be the next innovation in Arizona’s water future.
Are Democrats serious about impeachment?
If the goal is to create a broader consensus in favor of removing Trump, this isn’t the way to go about it.
The tax that Democrats dare not name
A European-style social welfare system will require a European-style value-added tax.
Legislate, not litigate, more money for prison health care
If an “expert” report is right, that the principal problem is that the system is underfunded, there’s no answer to be found in a federal courtroom.
Russia is now in the Middle East snake pit
Trump’s erratic actions in Syria have increased Russia’s position. But is that a gain or a headache?
Quid pro quo or not, what Trump did was wrong
The defense of Trump’s Ukrainian call misses a larger point, as does the whitewash of the unseemly situation with the Bidens in the country.