Originally appeared in The New York Times. There he goes again. Donald Trump may be a month into his presidency, but his public remarks continue to be laden with the same mischaracterizations, misrepresentations and, yes, lies as his campaign. Mr. Trump’s alternate reality has been on vivid display in venues ranging from an airplane hangar […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. House Republicans will be unveiling their replacement for the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a Obamacare) next week and the White House has been signaling that it may reveal its thoughts not long after. But what is becoming increasingly clear is the extent to which Obamacare has become embedded in […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times Even as the horror of President Trump’s immigration ban continues to dominate the news, shadowy outlines of his domestic agenda are beginning to form — and it is an equally ugly sight. As just one example, the White House made clear last week that it will halt a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. Donald J. Trump is positioned to achieve the most radical reshaping of economic policy since Ronald Reagan. Even under Reagan, Republicans never controlled both houses of Congress. Since Mr. Trump has yet to provide many specifics, I can’t thoroughly assess the overall impact of his plan. But at […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. A Republican billionaire entrepreneur runs for president on a platform of huge tax cuts for the rich and for business and yet, when his candidacy appears ascendant, the markets swoon. When the prospects brighten for his Democratic challenger — who has not held a private sector job in […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. No shortage of critics unleashed their weaponry eight years ago as the federal government intervened to save General Motors and Chrysler when they teetered near bankruptcy. Among the more notable: Mitt Romney, who’s well remembered for his 2008 New York Times Op-Ed article, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” This […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. WE’VE all seen the long summer lines at airport security checkpoints full of angry travelers. But many of us haven’t heard the real reason: funding for the Transportation Security Administration has been sliced by 8.5 percent over the past five years, leading to a 5.5 percent drop in […]
