by jpitney | Mar 15, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Trade
In 1987, Speaker Jim Wright (D-TX) created a new day in order to rush passage of a bill. Philip Wallach at The American Interest: Most dramatically, as Wright sought to push through a revenue-positive reconciliation bill following “Black Monday” in October 1987, his...
by jpitney | Mar 14, 2025 | Economic Policy, Taxes, Trade
‘Milton Friedman, April 27, 1978: The interesting question, and the question I want to explore with you today, is why is it that interference with international trade has been so widespread, despite the almost uniform condemnation of such measures by economists?...
by jpitney | Mar 13, 2025 | Civility, Public Opinion
Katherine Schaeffer and Beshay Sakla at Pew: Five years after the coronavirus outbreak, many Americans say public behavior in the United States has changed for the worse, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) say the...
by jpitney | Mar 12, 2025 | Dreier, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists
Minhal Nazeer at The Georgetown Voice: President Trump’s recent attempts to exert greater control over the press come as planning continues for D.C.’s Fallen Journalists Memorial, the design for which was first unveiled by the Fallen Journalists Memorial...
by jpitney | Mar 11, 2025 | civic virtue, Tocqueville
Daniel Stid at AEI: Tocqueville’s concern about the government’s domestication of nonprofits would no doubt increase after learning how many of them rely on public funding from different levels of government (over and above the subsidy they get via the tax...
