Steel and Aluminum

by | Jun 26, 2025 | Economic Policy, Trade

Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux at WSJ: Because steel and aluminum are crucial in manufacturing, anything close to a 50% tariff will drive up the cost of U.S. manufactured products dramatically. That will harm consumers, make U.S. manufactured products far less...

Powell on Tariffs

by | Jun 24, 2025 | Economic Policy, Trade

Fed Chair Jerome Powell: Policy changes continue to evolve, and their effects on the economy remain uncertain. The effects of tariffs will depend, among other things, on their ultimate level. Expectations of that level, and thus of the related economic effects,...

Civility and Pence

by | Jun 22, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Courage

Colette Philllips at Commonwealth Beacon:   Recently, I attended the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s annual dinner, where former Vice President Mike Pence received the Profile in Courage Award. Pence was recognized for his actions on January 6, 2021, when he...

Attack on Max Miller

by | Jun 20, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Israel, Violence

Andrew Solender at Axios: Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) said Thursday he contacted the Capitol Police after being “run off the road” by a man displaying a Palestinian flag while he was driving in his congressional district. Why it matters: The alleged incident...

The Deficit Future

by | Jun 18, 2025 | Budget, Debt, Economic Policy

CBO: The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) previously reported that H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on May 22, would increase the primary deficit by $2.4 trillion over...

Civility and Minnesota

by | Jun 17, 2025 | Civility, Polarization, Violence

 Julie Bosman at NYT: The assassination of an elected official is rare and shocking anywhere on American ground. Nowhere is it more jarring than in Minnesota, a state known for a singular political culture with high value placed on bipartisanship and a tradition of...

Political Violence, June 2025

by | Jun 15, 2025 | Public Service, Violence

Lisa Lerer at NYT: The statements of shock and condolences streamed in eerily one after another on Saturday after the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, and the attempted murder of another lawmaker and his wife. “Horrible news,” said Representative...