Don’t let doomsayers like Donald Trump fool you. On every meaningful metric of national strength, the United States under Joe Biden is a rising power—and we have the economic means and necessary alliances to meet our gravest challenges.
Reaganomics
Posted inMagazine
Why Can’t America Build Enough Weapons?
The debasement of the U.S. defense industrial base began, ironically, under Ronald Reagan, and won’t be reversed until we abandon the free-market fundamentalism he introduced.
Posted inPolitics
Building on Bidenomics
The president has done big things and is rightly boasting about them, but there’s more he can do to build public support for his government-forward ideas and new policies he can pursue to achieve progressive goals.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Day the GOP Stood Still
Rarely is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrong in his political or economic conclusions; the man makes an error about as infrequently as Halley’s Comet is visible from Earth. However, there was one tiny flaw in his July 18 post about the GOP’s march towards mania. Krugman correctly noted that he was one of […]
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Editor’s Note: 40 and 44
When asked two years ago for a historical analogy to his campaign for president, Barack Obama gave a surprising answer: Ronald Reagan. The Gipper, he said, “changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That comment was widely portrayed as a […]
