At a central bankers’ conference in Portugal last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell congratulated himself on his fight against inflation, leading markets to rally back home. But it must have been impossible for him to have missed that his European hosts were able to boast of much better success. This is bad news for […]

What the American economy needs is more politics in economic affairs. No, I have not lost my mind —well, perhaps not entirely and not on this particular point.  The Supreme Court is already getting us to take those first few baby steps along this desirable path. The end of the Chevron deference in Loper v. […]

Mainstream outlets have opened the floodgates and gotten real about Biden’s mental fitness.

Former President Trump went after George Clooney Wednesday evening after the actor wrote an op-ed pushing for President Biden to leave the White House race. “So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “He’s...

It's startling how far today’s Supreme Court has moved from that unanimous decision in United States v. Nixon.

Court reformers need a new approach, a democratic agenda for the courts to restore the rule of law. 

The Biden administration's lack of urgency in providing Ukraine with the weapons and munitions it needs to survive and defeat Russia is causing civilian casualties, and the U.S. and NATO's reactionary approach is not helping the situation.

The House Democrats’ campaign arm is adding two races to its battlefield map — including a key New York swing district — in the lead-up to November as the group looks to usher in a majority next year amid concerns over President Biden’s standing at the top of the ticket. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)...

Some Democrats won’t accept “yes” for an answer. President Biden has been saying for two weeks, following his tremulous debate with former President Trump, that he’s in the presidential race to stay. Period. His campaign repeated that stance as part of a fundraising email to supporters Wednesday night: “President Biden is in this race until...

Heather Slavkin Corzo, most recently a policy director at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is joining Mindset as a principal. She was previously director of capital markets policy at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), head of U.S. policy at the Principles for Responsible Investment and a senior fellow...