By Sita Nataraj Slavov, Project Syndicate | March 11, 2025
Republicans and Democrats today both make the same mistake: they insist on letting voters to believe that they can maintain a large welfare state without imposing the requisite level of taxes on the broader public. Yet this head-in-the-sand approach to fiscal policymaking obviously cannot go on forever.
Central banks’ purchases and repatriation of gold are on the rise, and both should be viewed as a symptom of deglobalization. They signal the advent of a more geopolitically fragmented world in which cross-border transactions of all kinds are poised to become more difficult and costly.
As budgets swell, populations shrink and taxes climb, Fareed Zakaria questions whether America’s largest cities are delivering value for what they spend.
Every concession since Busan was for one photograph. The photograph was for his fourth term.
Established in the early months of the second Trump administration and initially led by Elon Musk, DOGE set out to eliminate waste, fraud, and inefficiency in federal spending
The debate is not whether to stop changing the clocks every March and November. Most people, including members of Congress and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, despise the biannual switch. It’s which “version” of time to keep.
