The identity crisis imperiling the continent isn’t one of race and religion. It’s one of Europe’s willingness to preserve and expand its liberal values.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump and China: The Art of the Desperate Deal
Will Robert Lighthizer restrain Donald Trump’s impulse to take a headline-grabbing and self-defeating China deal?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Congress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks
The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Do All Roads Lead to Congestion Pricing?
Portland, Oregon, and New York are taking different routes to charging drivers who need to get downtown during the rush hour. They’ll also have to think hard about the impacts on low-income residents.
Posted inEconomic Policy
AMLO’s Gamble
Mexico’s decidedly leftist new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is taking on the business-political-criminal elite that has dominated his nation, and drenched it in bloodshed, for the past 40 years.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Needed: A U.S. Policy on Saudi Arabia
The next administration would do well to revise the long-standing U.S. partnership with Saudi Arabia, and America has substantial leverage to produce change in the kingdom’s behavior.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Beto Versus The Barrio
The rock-star Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a candidate for president, once supported the bulldozing of a low-income neighborhood in his hometown of El Paso—a project spearheaded by his father-in-law.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Consumer Product Safety Rules and the Lobbyists Who Work to Scuttle Them
Industry officials turn to Bracewell LLP to pare back regulations on everything from portable generators to table saws.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s One Good Appointee
Will Robert Lighthizer restrain Donald Trump’s impulse to take a headline-grabbing and self-defeating China deal?
Posted inWorking in America
How to Rebuild the Labor Movement, State by State
What progressives can learn from conservative anti-union advocacy