It was ugly, it was frustrating, and now the most cynical Supreme Court confirmation hearing in American history is mercifully over. Brett Kavanaugh is going to become the next Supreme Court justice not because he’s demonstrated noticeable judicial independence or integrity or because his views of the Constitution are particularly mainstream but because Senate Republicans […]

Read more

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanagh so far has done precisely what his Republican handlers on and off Capitol Hill hoped he would do when President Donald Trump picked him this summer at the behest of the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation to ensure the court remains the most rigidly conservative it has been in […]

Read more

It devolved into farce even before Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh made it into the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room and it started with the release of selected portions of his opening remarks. He would be an “umpire,” he promised, a neutral arbiter of law and fact who would “be part of a Team of […]

Read more

During his volatile presidential campaign, Donald Trump griped about the U.S. trade deficit and criticized U.S. trade agreements. He called the North American Free Trade Agreement “the worst trade deal the U.S. has ever made.” NAFTA reduced trade barriers (especially tariffs) between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. He opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an attempt […]

Read more

As the campaign season enters its final stages, torrents of empty rhetoric and wasted column inches are being devoted to the fate of American middle-class families. Proposals ranging from health saving accounts, student debt forgiveness, even guaranteed minimum income plans have been advanced as silver bullets. Whenever a policy debate in the United States is […]

Read more