Trump administration

Back when the impeachment inquiry was still in the hands of the House Intelligence Committee, I got an email message from an old friend asking, “What do you make of…

There was a time when the American Bar Association (ABA) was respected as a non-partisan, non-political professional organization dedicated to good governance and the rule of law. That was the…

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its report on health insurance coverage for 2018. The total number of individuals without health insurance increased from 2017 to 2018. Many media…

Last week, President Trump signed a new Executive Order (EO), “Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.” For the most part, this EO has some thoughtful…

Health care legislation or health care reform often consists of new regulations or new restrictions on what a patient can do or how they access care. Whenever health care reform…

Question: When is it acceptable for a Republican president to openly brag about liking taxes? Answer: When the taxes are directed toward American consumers and are called tariffs. Last week,…

Walmart has low prices for all kinds of products, from clothing to shoes to groceries and almost everything in between. And the fact is that those who benefit the most…

As part of the US-Mexico trade deal that was announced last week, the Trump administration argued for and won a $16 per hour minimum wage for auto and auto…

There is a puzzling term regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, is the ultimate goal of their protectionist trade policies. The phrase is “reciprocal…

Typically, “saving American jobs” is the reason given for implementing protectionist trade measures, i.e., tariffs and quotas. The argument goes something like this: foreign producers of a product are offering…