In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut merchants who objected to his appointment of a new collector of customs duties — the equivalent of tariffs. The prior holder of that office — Elizur Goodrich — had…
The U.S. federal government has a debt problem. At $36.2 trillion (or about 125 percent of GDP), this burden is already so great that it cannot be paid back any time soon and would take decades of concerted efforts to…
For someone destined to be such an indispensable man in the incoming Trump administration, it’s remarkable how few Americans outside of Washington know anything about Russ Vought. Remarkable, but perhaps unsurprising. Vought isn’t a politician. He’s a thinker. And the…
