by jpitney | Mar 4, 2025 | California Politics, Interns, Journalism, Journalists, Uncategorized
by jpitney | Feb 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thanks to everyone for submitting an entry to the Dreier Roundtable op-ed contest. The entries were of uniformly high quality, so the decisions were difficult. Congratulations to the winners: First: Henry Long, “Walter Lippmann and the Problem of Responsible...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
by jpitney | Feb 10, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate, Transparency, Uncategorized, Volunteering
Philip Wallach at AEI: Key Points The 118th Congress passed 274 laws, fewer than any other since the Civil War. Other metrics confirm its poor productivity. It was also among the most omnibus-dependent congresses in American history. Especially in the House of...
by jpitney | Feb 1, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Economic Policy, Photojournalism, Trade, Uncategorized
Phil Gramm and Larry Summers: In an extraordinary act of unity, 1,028 American professional economists in the spring of 1930 signed a letter urging Congress to reject and President Herbert Hoover to veto the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Yet that June, Congress passed it...
by jpitney | Jan 1, 2025 | Civility, Uncategorized
In 2000, Presidents Ford and Carter spoke with Tim Russert about civility:
