NATIONAL VIEW: The Federal Reserve has a credibility problem
The Federal Reserve’s greatest resource is its credibility. People have to believe the central bank will get inflation under control — or else inflationary...
NATIONAL VIEW: Democrats, Republicans agree on this tech privacy bill, but can it pass?
With Republicans poised to take over the House next year, a divided Congress looms. The result could be two years of partisan strife and...
NATIONAL VIEW: Biden bails out the teamsters
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky last week pleaded with Congress for more money for COVID. How about asking the Teamsters...
NATIONAL VIEW: The future depends on chips. Is the US ready?
When President Biden visits a microchip factory under construction in Arizona, it might look like a political victory lap: The factory will bring $12...
NATIONAL VIEW: Joe Biden stops a railroad strike
A looming national rail strike was narrowly averted, after the Senate voted 80-15 to impose a bargaining agreement on intransigent unions. Brokered by the...
NATIONAL VIEW: Ten years of limbo
One of the few issues most Americans can agree on when it comes to the thorny topic of immigration is that longtime residents who...
NATIONAL VIEW: Student loans: Biden’s eternal emergency
The Biden Administration on Tuesday, Nov. 22, canceled tens of billions of more dollars in student debt on the sly by extending its payment...
NATIONAL VIEW: How the Supreme Court can start to regain Americans’ trust in its...
Once again, the Supreme Court is finding its ethics under scrutiny. Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas declined to recuse himself in a case involving the...
NATIONAL VIEW: The collapse of a crypto empire demands an industrywide reckoning
Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire died young recently, when his cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy. The details remain scarce, but the bottom line is this:...
NATIONAL VIEW: John Eastman’s sorry excuse for Jan. 6
In the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riot, John Eastman gave President Trump legal advice that was terrible, and now he’s trying to argue...