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Like John Puri, I think the Fed has raised interest rates too slowly and too little. I also agree with his implicit criticism of the Fed for lack of...
A reader is unhappy about my column on Trump’s trade war with Canada, in which I note that, before that trade war, 99.85 percent of cross-border...
I wrote recently about Democrats’ dishonest claim that Republicans, in last year’s big budget bill, had given tens of billions of dollars in tax...
Today’s column concerns California’s cutting-edge wealth tax: It’s possible, in principle, to impose a tax that loses money. Think of a 100...
My recent column making the case for a Republican Senate elicited two responses worth commenting on. Amy Acton’s Mom Claims Candidate Lied About...
In several races, Democrats are accusing Republican representatives of giving tens of billions in tax breaks for data centers. At the Washington Post,...
The Atlantic has an article by Jean Chatzky arguing that senior citizens are too cautious about spending money, which is bad both for themselves and...
The Senate campaigns are being waged as though the only issue at stake were whether senators will fight Trump or enable him during the next two years....
The U.S. has a government-issued currency and a central bank. Maybe we shouldn’t have these institutions, but they are likely to be around for the...
One thing I didn’t mention in my column: An Ipsos poll out this week finds rising familiarity with tariffs that is not turning into rising approval....
Some Republicans are making the case that the economy is much stronger than the press and the polls make it out to be. Today's column goes into...
Kevin Warsh aspires to be a Federal Reserve chair of few words. He doesn’t think the central bank should provide as much “forward guidance”...
Megan McArdle raises an idea that has occurred to me too, and thereby makes me think there might be something to it: [W]e should limit AI access to...
In 2021 the Texas legislature was debating a bill to require that participation in sports from grades K–12 follow the sex designated on students’...
Noah Rothman excoriates the developing Trump administration proposal to open a government childcare subsidy program to one-earner married couples....
The House of Commons is taking up a terrible bill tomorrow. The bill doesn’t require a mental health assessment for a candidate for assisted...
Defending her boss’s proposal to make Social Security solvent entirely through tax increases — a proposal I criticized — Senator Bernie...
The stated justification for it is more and more self-referential. Canadian dairy protectionism is a particular sore spot for American farmers. But...
The vice president thinks the dollar’s global status is a curse. Even if he were right, I ask in today’s column, what’s the U.S. government...
On ABC yesterday, I pointed out that the trade war with Canada will hit Michigan particularly hard.
If you look at the list of Senate cosponsors of Medicare for All, you’ll see that 17 of the 18 come from states that Kamala Harris carried in 2024....
Fox News host Will Cain asked the vice president about socialism's appeal to young people. Vance replied, in part: My warning to my fellow...
Charles Fain Lehman writes: As of 2025, daily users accounted for about 80 percent of marijuana consumption, compared to 90 percent of cigarette...
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed a law explicitly legalizing abortion throughout pregnancy, that is, to the moment of birth. State law...
My defense of the filibuster today was partly prompted by this thoughtful post by my friend Mark Strand, a longtime supporter of the filibuster who...
I’m not a fan of the tariffs that Noah criticizes in this post, or of the Iran war he absolves from blame for “sluggish hiring.” But does the...
. . . to stop talking about the issue that clearly animates him most.
I take up the question at the Washington Post. For decades, the United States has been moving away from the version of Congress in which the...
Americans’ approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing has fallen to a record low of 33%, driven by a steep drop in Republicans’ backing...
Critics of my post on President Trump’s responsibility for the Covid-19 response in 2020 have gotten hung up on the idea that I’m saying that he...
During 2020 and 2021, I thought of Anthony Fauci having three basic jobs. He directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he...
I just ran across a speech that New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger gave in June about the impact of AI on journalism. He talked about “the...
PEN America is a venerable organization of writers that, it says on its website, “stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to...
. . . won’t be Francesca Hong, because it was Elmer Benson (governor of Minnesota 1937-39), who was defending Joseph Stalin as late as the 1980s.
“It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington,” claimed the headline in the New York Times. Sally Quinn’s op-ed indeed writes, “The...
Her judicial opinions and votes, like those of the other justices, are fair game for criticism. But the recent wave of attacks on her is bizarrely...
I agree with Jim on this. There’s an additional problem with raising the inflation target from 2 percent a year to 3 (or even 4, as some economists...
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