Don’t let the deficit scolds scare you into thinking small. Much of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was devoted to describing the menaces he claims face America — mainly the menace of scary brown people, but also the menace of socialism. And there has been a lot of …
Fix the Debt is now fixin’ to get paid. One of the unnoticed ways in which American politics has changed under Donald Trump is the quiet disappearance of the budget deficit as a fixation of the news media and the business and political elite. During Barack Obama’s two terms in …
Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, economic policy has remained in a stalemate so deep it extends even to policies of putative agreement. The most current example is unemployment assistance. The main reason for the stalemate is the combination of strategic obstruction and ideological radicalism …