The death this week of longtime Intel chairman Andrew Grove — who, astonishingly, in my view, didn’t even rate a front-page obituary in the New York Times — is a moment to reflect on immigration, on America, and on the triumph of freedom over fascism and communism. Even the pre-prepared obituaries didn’t quite manage to […]
Neither the Trump fans nor the Hillary Clinton fans want to hear it, but the two politicians have more in common than either of the presidential candidates wants to acknowledge. He gave money to her foundation and her campaigns. Federal campaign finance records indicate that Donald Trump gave at least seven separate campaign contributions to […]
Think the real story of the political-economic moment is the populist uprising powering Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump against the power centers of Wall Street and Washington? Perhaps. But the even more compelling drama may be what might be called the plutocrat’s paradox: how the super-rich are turning against each other. The latest salvo comes […]
How panicked should we be about the rise of Donald Trump? A professor at Harvard, Danielle Allen, recently published a widely shared op-ed piece in the Washington Post likening his rise to that of Hitler in Germany. She’s hardly the only one drawing that analogy. I did so myself back in September of 2015. Certainly, […]
The presidential campaign issue of veterans health care is worth watching, even if you aren’t a veteran or closely linked to one. The matter came up at both of the two most recent presidential debates. It’s in the news not only because of the scandal over long wait times for care at Veterans Administration hospitals […]
Call it “the missing middle.” Not the supposedly vanishing middle-income or middle-class American family, about which politicians from both parties have been raising an alarm, but rather the moderate middle of American politics, which has lately been nearly imperceptible. Two Republican candidates aiming at the centrist wing of the party, George Pataki and Lindsey Graham, […]
At the Democratic debate this coming weekend, expect to hear Hillary Clinton claim that the economy does better when Democrats control the White House. The claim is a staple of campaign appearances by the former secretary of state. She uttered a version of it recently in Boston, where she said, “I know my Republican friends […]
The former secretary of state and senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, reportedly will on Wednesday announce plans to impose an “exit tax” on companies that move their headquarters out of America or merge with foreign firms to escape America’s unreasonably high corporate taxes. Back in 2012, when Senator Schumer, Democrat of New York, and the then-Speaker of the […]
