The manner of Donald Trump’s dismissal of John Bolton as National Security Adviser was characteristically ungracious. Trump and Bolton have differing accounts of exactly how… Read More »Blog No. 235. Bolton, R.I.P. – What Now?
Wring Out the Old Many, perhaps most, readers may prefer to think of 2018 as eminently forgettable and have little wish to revisit its high… Read More »Blog No. 201 Wring out the Old, Ring in the New
Forty years ago or so, I had the opportunity to work for Carla A. Hills when she was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and… Read More »Blog No. 160. Carla Hills On NAFTA (and Job Training)
On Monday, the New York Times reported that House leaders had pushed back against President-Elect Trump’s plan to impose a 35% tariff on companies that relocate jobs overseas. The report was the first sign–and a welcome one–of any willingness on the part of Congressional Republicans to stand up for traditional Republican principles in dealing with Trump. The threat of a 35% increase had been at the heart of Trump’s much-heralded deal with the Carrier Corporation and its parent, United Technologies (UT), but it carried a clear risk of sparking a trade war that could seriously damage the American economy.Read More »Blog No. 120. The Bully in the Pulpit and The Carrier Coup.
The terrorist attack in Brussels commands the attention of us all, and we will comment on its significance in the next few days. In the meantime, the presidential race in the United States moves relentlessly on with no timeout for crisis or tragedy. We have already written more about Donald Trump than we ever expected or wanted to. Yet there is no other issue that is more important to the country than the destructive path down which the Pied Piper of Demagoguery seeks to lead us. And only now is the mainstream media beginning to awaken to the fact that it has played an important role in his ascent. It is too late for them to take back the billions of dollars of print and air time given Trump, but perhaps it is not too late for journalists to begin acting like journalists.Read More »Blog No. 95. Donald and his Enablers in the Media.