The biggest 2020 news this week is not the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. It’s that President Donald Trump’s administration has asserted for the first time that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down. Health care has consistently been listed by voters as a top […] Read more »
On the 2020 campaign trail, Mueller’s report was an afterthought before he delivered it
As congressional Democrats zero in on Attorney General William Barr’s four-page synopsis of Robert Mueller’s report, the candidates vying to run against President Donald Trump next year and the voters desperate to unseat him are largely ignoring the spectacle that has dominated Washington’s attention for years. … On the campaign […] Read more »
Americans Are Dissatisfied with the Government’s Spending Priorities
Improving the nation’s education system, providing assistance to the poor, and improving the nation’s health top a long list of public policy issues that Americans say the government is spending too little on, while almost half of Americans say the government is overspending on foreign aid. This collaborative analysis by […] Read more »
The Roots of Our Division
Starbuck’s CEO and potential third-party candidate Howard Schultz wants us to “talk honestly about our problems” and to “debate them with civility, respect, and optimism.” In a New York Times opinion column this weekend, AEI President Arthur Brooks writes, “What we need is not to disagree less, but to disagree […] Read more »
How Jay Inslee Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination
In his 2020 presidential announcement video, two-term Washington Governor Jay Inslee declares that climate change is the “most urgent challenge of our time.” Inslee intends to make climate change his signature issue. … But putting climate change ahead of all other issues could be risky, Stanford University psychologist Jon Krosnick […] Read more »
Jay Inslee wants to win the White House on climate change. He has his work cut out for him
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is making man-made climate change a cornerstone of his 2020 presidential candidacy. For many Democrats, it is an issue near to their heart. According to a Pew Research Center poll taken last year, 75% of Democrats say human activity is causing climate change. All the major […] Read more »