There are at least two American institutions that remain venerable, albeit vulnerable: the justice system and the Federal Reserve. On my way in this morning, I learned some details about the Hawaiian judge’s rejection of President Trump’s travel ban v2.0. While team Trump believed they’d removed the problematic language from their first run at this… Read more
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Hey, no fair! Governing is hard!
First, over at WaPo, check out my latest summary of the CBO score of the Republican’s just downright nasty, greedy “health care plan.” Next, I agreed with David Leonhardt’s useful bit of history here, wherein he deconstructs the corner into which Republicans have painted themselves: How did the party’s leaders put themselves in this position?… Read more
We’re wired to discount the future. That’s uniquely problematic in our system.
Over at WaPo. The R’s attack on regulation writ large is clearly underway and is a profound threat. We can and should fight this on a case-by-case basis–Dodd-Frank, fiduciary rule, climate–but it’s equally important to puzzle out the thematics of why this is such an effective play for them.
Trump’s revealing response to the block on his immigration ban
This is an incisive editorial from today’s NYT, on President’s Trump’s Twitter attack on the “so-called judge” who blocked his immigration ban. The piece argues that the role of courts, as upholders of rationality, has, in the age of Trump, become more important than ever, particularly as other key institutions, including Congress and significant swaths… Read more
Can someone think of a good protest chant for keeping the “fiduciary rule”??
Over at Wapo. Like Sheriff John Brown, they want to “kill it before it grows.”