Policy

The New Deal at 75: An Inspiration, Not a Blueprint

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Whatever your political perspective, Americans need to admire the New Deal for, if nothing else, its ambitious agenda. In a way unparalleled in the 20th Century, the New Deal left us a legacy of achievement – one that we can still see in big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Wishek, North Dakota.  read more »

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Europe is Second Best in Deep Tech and Willing to Trade

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A systematic mapping of where the world’s global leading companies in deep tech are located shows that the US continues to have a significant advantage. However, Europe is catching up  read more »

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The Economist’s Europe Worship has Become a Sick Joke

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I thought crack-smoking had lost its appeal, but perhaps it is still a regular pastime among journalists determined to take down Trump’s America. The Economist, for example, has suggested that “the land of the free” has moved across the Atlantic, from America to Europe.  read more »

5 Reasons Why I'm Cancelling My Subscription to The New York Times

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We have lived in Austin for 40 years. And for nearly all of that time, Lorin and I have subscribed to the New York Times. For decades, we took the paper version.  read more »

Can Democrats Exploit Trump's Tariff Chaos?

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As with many political movements, MAGA represents a fragile coalition of groups that often have little in common — and, at the extremes, may even detest one another.  read more »

The Profoundly Misunderstood Housing Affordability Crisis

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Over the last half-century, more restrictive urban planning policies have been associated with undermined housing affordability  read more »

Trump is Right to Take On the Free Trade Fundamentalists

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It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s haphazard tariff barrage as silly and self-defeating, especially after so many days of global market turmoil. But critics among liberal Democrats and Republican free traders still need to address the overriding goal behind the seeming madness.  read more »

Forever 20

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If you let the popularity of an idea – no matter how silly - dictate your stance, then you are not a very good elected official.  read more »

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A Pro Family Housing Agenda

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There is considerable concern about housing affordability in the United States. Housing is the most expensive element of the cost of living  read more »

Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!

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President Trump’s Executive Orders have ended U.S. participation in the Green New Deal and Paris climate treaty.  read more »