Jun 16, 2025
Trump faced a problem in taming Iran's nuclear ambitions: He had promised to avoid U.S. involvement in what he derisively called "endless wars" and now he faced the need, once again, to project American power abroad.
Jun 12, 2025
The party always responds to defeat by making things worse and becoming more radical. It happened in 1968 after Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey.
Jun 2, 2025
In 2017, as he came into office for his first term, President Trump made a key decision that proved disastrously wrong: He gave priority to efforts to repeal or reform Obamacare.
May 23, 2025
In the maneuvering over the big beautiful Trump tax cut three prominent sources of revenue were left on the table and remain to be used. It may turn out to be the Big Beautiful Bill Part 2 (BBB 2.0).
May 16, 2025
Undoubtedly influenced by the electoral history of their younger years, when Millennials largely backed Democrats, the age group was reluctant to move to Trump.
May 8, 2025
Trump knows that he can reassert control of the OAS whenever he gets around to it and realizes that Africa is a total mess, with China giving the most in bribes to corrupt regimes. So he doesn’t take the inroads China is making as seriously as he should.
May 5, 2025
The experience of the Clinton years suggests that welfare rolls dropped dramatically once work requirements were imposed on beneficiaries. How much more would enrollment drop if they were part of Medicaid?
May 2, 2025
So the Trump tariffs could herald an entirely new era for the American economy. The stimulative effect of one-third lower tax rates would be incredible. Wealthy people from all over the world would line up to come to America … legally.