Rather than bemoaning globalization, we should be celebrating it - Marco...
Senator Marco Rubio makes an interesting point when he writes in The Atlantic: “For too long, government and business leaders alike have stood back and endorsed supposedly unstoppable global forces...
View ArticleChina and US capital markets: For once, ‘leveling the playing field’ is not a...
A bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives have introduced legislation that would force foreign companies to delist from American stock exchanges unless they come into compliance with US...
View ArticleWhat conservatism should look like after Trump
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View ArticleFumbling for clarity, at last
We live in a confusing political moment. There are a lot of obvious reasons for that. Just turn on your television and you’ll see. But I think that underlying many of those is the exhaustion of a...
View ArticleWhat do Republican voters want?
The latest entry in the post-Trump conservatism sweepstakes was Marco Rubio’s speech at the Catholic University of America in early November. The Florida senator made the case for a “common-good...
View ArticleWhat left and right alike get wrong about ‘late’ capitalism
What if American capitalism isn’t broken, rigged, or in dire need of saving? It’s a notion completely foreign to contemporary American politics. That’s why Democrats and Republicans often sound a lot...
View ArticleOpponents of ‘unfettered capitalism’ are fighting a phantom
Enemies of unfettered capitalism, unite! For as long as I can remember, people on the left have complained about “unfettered capitalism.” Moderate liberals do it, and of course flat-out Marxists do...
View ArticleAn ambitious presidency won’t ‘unite’ the country
“The purpose of the presidency is not the glorification of the president,” South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg recently declared, “but the unification of the American people.” Treacle like this has...
View ArticleCommon ground on the common good
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View ArticleMarco Rubio has come down with Trump disease
At his best, Senator Marco Rubio shows leadership on public policy. Unlike many Republicans in Congress, he’s unafraid to question his party’s orthodoxy and is willing to break new ground by applying...
View ArticleAmerica dreams of Chinese state capitalism
The U.S. economy is in the 11th year of a record-long expansion. Unemployment is at a 50-year low. And most of the biggest, most innovative companies in the world hail from America. Given such...
View ArticleNikki Haley says the free market isn’t free enough
Over the last year, more and more conservatives have been saying that it’s time to rethink their economic philosophy. In budding think tanks, senators’ speeches and cable broadcasts, they have been...
View ArticleSmall business alone needs $1 trillion now
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View ArticleTrump would hurt economy by trying to restart it
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View ArticleCorona conservatism
Not long ago, as the severity of the coronavirus pandemic became clear, journalists were quick to say that the crisis marked the end of an era. “The Trump Presidency is Over,” declared a headline in...
View ArticleWTH is going on with the coronavirus economy? Glenn Hubbard on the Paycheck...
Millions of Americans have filed for unemployment benefits as the timeline of the coronavirus lockdown remains unclear. In light of rising economic uncertainty, Congress authorized a $2 trillion...
View ArticleCongress has introduced bills to limit drug reliance on China
Marco Rubio (R-FL) and a group of bipartisan senators (including Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)) is promoting a bill which would limit US reliance on drugs and drug ingredients coming from China. U.S....
View ArticleWhat a pro-worker Republican Party really looks like
The day after the election, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, a rising star of conservative populism, declared: “Republicans in Washington are going to have a very hard time processing this. But the...
View ArticleThe GOP’s economic confusion
By James Pethokoukis The Republican Party has become a workers party. I know this because many leading Republicans are saying this. The GOP is now “the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and...
View ArticleOn Rwanda, Marco Rubio fumbles terrorism
On Monday, a Rwandan court sentenced Paul Rusesabagina, the hotelier made famous in 2004’s Hotel Rwanda, to 25 years in prison on various terrorism charges. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, a...
View ArticleRepublicans need to be more than the party of Trump
By Michael R. Strain Republicans are apparently too busy stoking cultural grievances and recounting votes from the 2020 presidential election to craft a policy agenda for the next election. Looking...
View ArticleBig business can’t rely on Republicans anymore
By Michael R. Strain The marriage between big business and the Republican Party has long been one of the strongest in American politics. But that relationship is on the rocks, and the rift is growing...
View ArticleRepublicans battle over ‘socialism-lite’
By Michael R. Strain Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Republican economic policy. His trade war, lack of even a rhetorical commitment to fiscal responsibility and warm embrace of industrial policy...
View ArticleDon’t Ban Oil Exports to China
Beltway silliness is as unavoidable as the summer humidity because rent-seeking groups, both economic and ideological, have powerful incentives to advocate legislation that would advance their...
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