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An Extremist Holding the Purse Strings

Originally published in The New York Times. President Trump will hardly be short of far-right cabinet members, including an education secretary who has called public schools a “dead end,” a labor secretary who has been cited for employment law violations and an Environmental Protection Agency administrator who has sued his own department. But within the […]

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2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?)

Originally appeared in The New York Times. By any measure, 2016 was a momentous year, capped by the shocking victory of Donald J. Trump. As his choices for his cabinet were unveiled, a sea change in the path of government policy appeared inevitable. What is less clear is whether Mr. Trump’s proposals will help those […]

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Trump’s Chaos Theory: A Single Tweet Causes Jobs To Return

Originally appeared in The NY Times. Donald J. Trump spent much of his campaign peddling hope to beleaguered working-class Americans that, on his watch, those old-fashioned, good-paying manufacturing jobs would come back to America. On Thursday, the president-elect was in Indiana to celebrate the news that the Carrier Corporation will move only 1,300 jobs to […]

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New York Times: Donald Trump Will Do Nothing to Bring Back Our Dying American Dream

Donald Trump got lucky in his first term. When he arrived, inflation was low, unemployment was falli...

The New York Times: How Project 2025 Would Change the Country

When Donald Trump takes the debate stage on Tuesday, he will doubtless again try to disavow Project ...

The New York Times: Don’t Take Trump’s Word for It. Check the Data.

For more than 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump gave a rambling speech accepting the Republican nom...

The New York Times: Biden’s Get-Tough-on-China Tariffs May Backfire

The tide of globalization is receding, at least from American shores. Two successive presidents have...

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