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Cronyism yields bumper crop farm bailouts; Where's the outrage?

By Veronique de Rugy Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute recently complained on Twitter that those who cared about cronyism when Barack Obama was president are suddenly very quiet about Pres. Donald Trump’s bailout of farmers. There is some truth to his complaint.…

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Oct 7

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Once again, the Democrats' conclusions are ahead of the evidence

Fareed Zakaria is off this week. Marc A. Thiessen is filling in. Remember when Democrats insisted that Pres. Trump was “working on behalf of the Russians,” only to have special counsel Robert Mueller declare he “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or…

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'Pay gap' reflects women's choices, not employer discrimination

By Veronique de Rugy Does capitalism help or hurt women? I recently participated in a debate on the topic at the Cato Institute. While preparing for the event, I learned many fascinating facts that may interest feminists who claim the best way to help American women is for the…

Timely wisdom shed on Trump Iran policy from an ancient source

By Fareed Zakaria “The enemy gets a vote.” American military leaders are fond of using that line. Gen. James Mattis used it so often that it is sometimes attributed to him. In fact, it is a nugget of wisdom dating back to Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist, who counseled…

All that winning is creating Trump tariff and trade aches and pains

By Veronique de Rugy On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump said that, if elected, “We’re going to win so much. You’re going to get tired of winning. You’re going to say, ‘Please, Mr. President, I have a headache. Please, don’t win so much.’” Unfortunately, Trump’s…

Dealing with Iran: Pres. Trump can still get a win on foreign policy

By Fareed Zakaria As he moves on to his fourth national security advisor in less than three years, it’s become clear that Donald Trump’s foreign policy is in shambles. It has produced turmoil but achieved almost nothing. Despite all the boasts, there are no new deals with China,…

Hyperbole aside, Trump policies are not bringing jobs back to U.S.

By Veronique de Rugy In his book The Art of the Deal, Pres. Donald Trump described his communication style as “truthful hyperbole.” Hyperbole, sure. Truthful, questionable. Take Trump’s recent speech in Pennsylvania where he declared that his tariffs had turned things around for…

Are we seeing the end of the world’s most successful political party?

By Fareed Zakaria Britain’s Tories are arguably the most successful political party of the modern age. The Conservatives have ruled Britain for nearly 60 of the 90 years since 1929 (the country’s first election with universal adult suffrage). But recently we watched the…

Is it really free market? Some clarity on Pres. Trump’s economic policies

By Veronique de Rugy It’s a fact that Pres. Donald Trump has a remarkably large number of supporters among the voters and pundits who label themselves as “free market.” They usually say something like, “Sure, I don’t like his trade and immigration policies, but the rest are…

Pres.Trump and his team just can't seem to get out of their own way

By Marc A. Thiessen Fareed Zakaria is still on vacation. Marc A. Thiessen is filling in again this week. The Trump administration’s inability to defend the defensible is simply mind-numbing. Even when the president is doing the right thing, he and his team can’t seem to get out…

Social Security reform: The system really is running out of money

By Veronique de Rugy The U.S. government’s debt — that is, our and our children’s debt as taxpayers — is growing. This growth is largely driven by rising Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid obligations. These are the programs Congress could focus on and work to reform. Only…

Lesson from a senior: We didn’t have the ‘green thing’ back in our day

Editor’s note: The following was posted by an anonymous writer on Facebook. Likely British because of references to “mum” and “nappies,” the author makes some good points about a simpler time. As I was checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I…

Note to administration: You can’t have your tariff cake and eat it, too

By Veronique de Rugy When it comes to trade policy, Pres. Donald Trump and his adviser Peter Navarro provide endless examples of incoherent economic thinking. They regularly claim that X is true, and then in the next breath, they assert that not-X is also correct. Let’s consider…

Trump is no more responsible for El Paso than Warren is for Dayton

Fareed Zakaria is on vacation this week. Marc A. Thiessen is filling in. As soon as authorities said they suspected the El Paso mass shooter was the author of a hate-filled, white-supremacist online manifesto, Democrats began blaming President Trump. “He is a racist,” said Sen.…

Who bears the burden? Passing laws, passing taxes & passing the buck

By Veronique de Rugy What do the French digital services tax, the employers’ share of payroll taxes and the corporate income tax all have in common? They are rarely shouldered by those entities and individuals targeted by legislators. In fact, one of the most important things to…

With history as the example, Trump should know tariffs just don't work

By Fareed Zakaria Pres. Trump has set off what could end up becoming a full-blown trade war. As we go down this path, it is worth keeping something firmly in view: Tariffs don’t work. I’m not spouting free-market theory; I’m simply making a practical observation. There have been…

Paid family leave a great idea, but Colorado’s proposal ignores trade-offs

By Veronique de Rugy There are no valid free market arguments for a nationwide, one-size-fits-all federal plan to provide paid leave. But should experimentation with this policy be off-limits to states? The beauty of a federalist system is that states can experiment and innovate…

U.S. must win the peace, not just the war, in emerging deal with the Taliban

By Fareed Zakaria The Trump administration’s emerging deal with the Taliban has the potential to bring greater stability to Afghanistan, after an 18-year inconclusive war in that country. Or it could reignite the Afghan civil war, emboldening terrorist groups and plunging the…

Unemployment, underemployment and the comprehensive jobless rate

By Veronique de Rugy When he testified before Congress recently, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell made an interesting comment: “We don’t have any basis or any evidence for calling this a hot labor market.” He added that “to call something hot, you need to see some…

The cancerous consensus in today’s hyper-politicized Washington, D.C.

By Fareed Zakaria You often hear that in these polarized times, Republicans and Democrats are deadlocked on almost everything. But the real scandal is what both sides agree on. The best example of this might be the defense budget. Recently, the Democratic House, which…

The global trade war comes full-circle to bite American producers

By Veronique de Rugy It has always puzzled me that anyone would believe that protecting the U.S. market with tariffs is a good idea. Yes, U.S. consumers might increase their demand for domestic goods because duties on imported foreign goods make them relatively more expensive.…

Administration's recent strategy toward Iran is confusing at best

By Fareed Zakaria The best illustration of the incoherence of the administration’s strategy toward Iran in a recent White House press release. “There is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms,” it read. The White House has not…

Trump is showing us how not to score a goal in the global trade war

By Veronique de Rugy Pres. Donald Trump likes to keep score. Well, here’s a score for him: America, zero; while the rest of the world keeps tallying up free trade points. That’s right, while American consumers have been waiting for well over a year to see some resolution to the…

Despite Reagan, Gingrich and Tea Party, welfare state standing strong

By Fareed Zakaria Today’s crisis of conservatism has produced surprisingly few books that try to understand what exactly has happened to the venerable creed. For decades, conservatism was a dominant ideology in the Western world, championed by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald…

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