Opinion | An Open Congress Would Make Better Laws
The Capitol dome at sunrise in Washington, March 4. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press President Ronald Reagan asked voters: “Are you
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Opinion | Canceling Student Debt: Is $10,000 Too Much or Not Enough?
Editor’s note: This week’s Future View evaluates President Biden’s proposal to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt per person. For next
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Opinion | Democrats’ Stealth Plan to Enact Universal Basic Income
Universal basic income is about to arrive in America. Congressional Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus bill provides for no-strings attached checks,
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Opinion | Biden’s Stimulus and the ‘Financialization’ of Taxes
A central Republican criticism of the $1.9 trillion Covid “stimulus” Democrats plan to ram through Capitol Hill is that taxes
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Opinion | An Open Mind Is the Key to the Post-Covid Economy
‘When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” There are competing accounts of the authorship
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Opinion | ‘Stimulus’ Does Little for Jobs
The Biden administration says if Congress passes the proposed $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, we won’t have to “wait for
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Opinion | Return of the Swamp Creatures
Washington doesn’t usually make it easy to pinpoint the moment when things went wrong. So thanks to Rep. Rosa DeLauro
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Opinion | Wisconsin’s Capitol Siege, 10 Years On
The Occupy movement didn’t start on Wall Street in September 2011. It started on my street in Wisconsin’s capital seven
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Opinion | A Stimulus Dollar Is Only a Dollar
Wait for it . . . any day now . . . get ready for the “multipliers.” You know, the idea that a government
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