Syndicated columns

President Donald Trump is the new Gerald Ford. Fifty-two years ago, President Gerald Ford came up with “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) — a gimmick to convince voters to ignore high unemployment and rising gas and food prices during the mid-term election. There were signs, buttons, and speeches all to promote Ford’s presidency and his WIN economic plan, which consisted of asking people to ...

Last April, President Donald Trump announced what will go down as one of the dumbest economic policy decisions in American history. Nearly every economist told the president that tariffs imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were a loser — with disagreement coming mostly from how bad their impact would be — and the administration was warned the move was likely ...

The biggest losers in Sunday’s extraordinary election in Hungary, aside from its four-term autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán, were Russia’s Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. Moreover, the reasons for Orbán’s fall offer surprising parallels with diminishing support for the U.S. president. And the restoration of Hungarian democracy at the ballot box offers highly relevant insights ...

We had so much going on this week, with the new season of "Euphoria" coming out and the president threatening to wipe out a 2,600-year-old civilization, that it's easy to miss things like the latest attempt by conservatives to reshape the U.S. into a theocracy. Not satisfied with shoehorning Bible stories into its English curriculum and the push to display the Ten Commandments in public ...