by jpitney | May 15, 2020 | Civility, Coronavirus
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by jpitney | May 14, 2020 | Debt, Economic Policy
Coronavirus is accelerating the already-serious problem of federal debt. James McBride, Andrew Chatzky, and Anshu Siripurapu at the Council on Foreign Relations: The United States’ debt-to-GDP ratio is among the highest in the developed world. Among other major...
by jpitney | May 13, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus
The Bipartisan Policy Institute and other organizations across the spectrum have an open letter to congressional leadership: We write to express our deep concern over the lack of a clear and transparent plan for maintaining congressional operations during the COVID-19...
by jpitney | May 12, 2020 | California Politics, Coronavirus, Economic Policy, State Government
From the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College — Written by Sevion DaCosta, Tara Mehra, Robin Peterson, Henry Schulz, and Nathaniel Tran, our newest report explores some of the ways the CARES Act is impacting state and local...
by jpitney | May 11, 2020 | Coronavirus, Deliberation
At National Review, Kevin D. Williamson on consensus: Consensus, with its suggestions of compromise and trans-partisanship, is an idea not at the apex of its career. On the left, progressives and populists spent years mocking and lamenting the so-called Washington...
