Nathan Jensen is a professor in the department of government at the University of Texas-Austin. Jason Wiens is policy director at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
States spend billions of dollars on tax breaks and other incentives to woo companies. Unfortunately most of this money ends up in firms’ pockets and few new jobs get created.
Except that the Trump administration killed Direct File, the IRS’s successful free program.
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In the fight for the Democratic nomination in Maine’s likely pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democrats seem to face a choice between the reckless and the listless.
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From threatening Denmark to belittling NATO, Trump has strained the alliance, but his affronts—including berating allies for not joining his Persian Gulf adventure—are speeding a European future without American leadership.
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The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority.
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His proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is pure Trump.
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Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
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