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Instead of proposing income tax cuts for low earners who pay little or no income tax in the first place, how about FICA cuts—offset by taxing the rich?

Iraq cost us $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war could add $1 trillion to a budget deficit that Trump may already be tripling.

The president was already doubling the budget deficit. With the high court’s tariff decision, he’s tripling it. There’s only one solution: Repeal his “big, beautiful” tax cut.

You don’t know the half of it.

Has the president’s pick to run the central bank decided to renounce his previous views? Or does Trump just like fighting with his appointees?

The kleptocratic nightmare we’re all living in is about to get worse.

The more thuggish the treasury secretary gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank.

A reluctance to relive the 1990s overwhelms justice, common sense, and good faith.

In a sad and seedy music-hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

The Massachusetts senator is right that her party is too beholden to the donor class. How on earth could anyone dispute that? And yet …

What’s a Fed chair got to do to get people interested in the criminalization of monetary policy?

As Trump floods the zone with mendacity, more and more people are tuning out the news to avoid him. We need a fresh approach.

The United States used to believe foreign wars should promote democracy. Not anymore.

If you remember the second Iraq War, you know how this story ends.

California’s flirting with a billionaire tax. The politics may be good—but it’s bad policy.

Scammers steal billions of dollars in food stamps from needy people every year. Why isn’t Congress doing anything to stop them?

Conservatives used to think you could be a political hatchet artist or you could serve the Lord. Now they say: Why choose?

Conservatives once promoted cost-benefit analysis to check the administrative state—until it got better at measuring the huge benefits of regulation.

The late public intellectual was the very model of a serial conformist.

Who knew so many Republicans would support union rights—in defiance of Trump, no less?