Entrepreneurial litigation is a big problem and Arizona’s Attorney General is doing something about it.
Better our headaches than those of the autocrats
There is waning confidence in democratic governance, but it still have a resilience autocracies lack, as Saudi Arabia and China illustrate.
On occupational deregulation, watch Arizona
Nationally, the left is joining the right in seeing occupational licensing as excessively restrictive and locking out those trying to climb the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Arizona will be a place to watch to see if that matters.
House GOP tax plan has three big flaws
The House GOP tax plan broadens the tax base more than expected, but doesn’t produce the results that should buy.
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.
Justices outline a flinch on Medicaid funding
When is a new administratively set fee not a new administratively set fee?
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.
Brnovich sums up Stanton’s mayorship
Stanton’s tenure as mayor was characterized by progressive gestures with much meat to them.
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.
State government needs a consumption tax increase
The lesson from the latest budget shortfall is that state government isn’t going to grow its way out of its current stagnation.