Tariffs and California

by | Nov 14, 2024 | California Politics, Trade

Levi Sumagaysay at CalMatters: Businesses that import goods into the country must pay the tariffs. They tend to pass on their increased costs to consumers, with some executives recently promising to do just that during their earnings calls. So economists largely view...

Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Budget, Public Administration

 Andrew Rudalevige at Good Authority: Probably the closest quasi-recent parallel is the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control in the Federal Government, convened by Ronald Reagan in 1982. PPSSCCFG was hardly a mellifluous acronym, so the body was usually...

Checking the Majority

by | Nov 9, 2024 | Democracy, Madison, Uncategorized

Nathan Gardels at Noema: To base the idea of democracy solely on elections invites illiberalism because it implies that majoritarian rule is all that is necessary. But, as the American founding fathers well understood, the will of the majority does not embrace all...

Lame Duck

by | Nov 8, 2024 | Congress

Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The lame-duck Congress over the next two months is not expected to produce any dramatic major final acts. One benefit of the lame duck period though is the opportunity for transition planning, especially for the new Congress and, in a...

Zelensky Speaks

by | Nov 7, 2024 | Reagan, Ukraine

For us in Ukraine, and all across Europe, it has always been crucial to hear the words of the then 45th President of the United States about “peace through strength.” When this principle becomes the policy of the 47th President, both America and the entire world will...

Not Teaching About Elections

by | Nov 5, 2024 | Civic Education, Elections

Sara Randazzo at WSJ: The 2024 election cycle has seen the sitting president drop out of the race, one of the candidates prosecuted in a criminal trial and the second female presidential candidate on a major-party ticket. It is hard to imagine a better backdrop...

Election Workers at Risk

by | Nov 4, 2024 | Elections, Public Service

Rachel Leingang at The Guardian: Elections offices in the US have hardened their security measures this year, anticipating potential violence based on experience since 2020 and during an ongoing rise in threats and harassment focused on election workers. Many offices...

Presidential Tariff Power

by | Nov 3, 2024 | Taxes, Trade

 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A: A new report from the Cato Institute argues that several laws authorize the president to impose tariffs on a wide range of imported goods without substantial procedural or institutional safeguards. … The report explains...