by jpitney | Aug 10, 2025 | Economic Policy, Statistics
At WP, Former CEA chairs N. Gregory Mankiw and Cecilia Rouse explain the need for nonpartisan, trustworthy economic data: The collection and analysis of federal statistics is complex. Often, the first numbers produced are revised as more information is gathered. And...
by jpitney | Aug 9, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: For nearly three decades I labored in the congressional vineyards of rules, procedures, norms and reforms. And, in all that time, until last week, I had never heard of a law creating the Senate rule of five or the House rule of seven....
by jpitney | Aug 8, 2025 | Economic Policy, Trade
Kailyn Rhone at NYT: The sweeping tariffs target nearly all U.S. trading partners and push the average tax on imports to more than 18 percent, the highest since 1934 and a steep jump from 2.4 percent in January, according to Yale’s Budget Lab. While the taxes are...
by jpitney | Aug 7, 2025 | Congress, Presidency, Separation of Powers
Philip A. Wallach at Law & Liberty: We should dispassionately take stock of Congress’s current position on foreign and domestic policy, on taxing and spending, and on the deeper question of what role our elected representatives play in our Constitutional system....
by jpitney | Aug 6, 2025 | Public Service
Rebecca Carballo at Politico: More than a month ago, the Education Department began public meetings to discuss the overhaul of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that allows civil service and nonprofit workers to have their student loans canceled after...
by jpitney | Aug 5, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Los Angeles, Mass Media, Newspapers
Sara Fischer at Axios: New York Post Media Group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., will launch a new, daily Los Angeles-based newspaper called “The California Post” in early 2026, the New York Post’s editor-in-chief Keith Poole told...
by jpitney | Aug 4, 2025 | Economic Policy, Nixon
Philip Rossetti at R Street: A number of political candidates who promote price freezes—also called price controls—in industries like housing have recently won electoral victories. This trend makes it worth asking what will happen if the government freezes energy...
by jpitney | Aug 3, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: In Congress there are few opportunities to really shine, especially if you are in the minority. That’s why efforts pay off in gathering an impressive cohort of bipartisan co-sponsors on a bill, and then on filing a discharge petition on...
by jpitney | Aug 2, 2025 | California Politics, Los Angeles
Melody Patterson at LAT: State regulators, knowing that old transmission lines could set off wildfires, proposed a safety rule in 2001 that would have forced Edison and other utilities to remove abandoned lines unless they could prove they would use them in the...
by jpitney | Aug 1, 2025 | Public Service
Melody Gutierrez at LAT: Across the country, antagonists and antigovernment “sovereign citizens” are flooding states and counties with liens like the ones Jarrett and others show how to file. In the claims, they often allege government officials owe them money or...
