Politics

While millions of lower-income Americans will be struggling to find a job or get enough hours to pay the bills, Obama won’t have to worry when he's out of office. 

The governors of 31 states, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, say they won’t take Syrian refugees. Merrill Matthews lays the blame for the refugee stalemate with the White House, not the nation’s governors; they have legitimate safety concerns, he wrote.

Before Obama sets a narrative that the U.S. is xenophobic, the public might benefit from a few facts on immigration.

President Barack Obama is once again faced with a problem of his own creation. After all, when you sow disgust you reap mistrust.

The irony here is that Obama came into office promising to restore the trust in big government.

Will one socialist learn from another socialist about marginal tax rates? Probably not.

To introduce a hidden tax as part of a tax plan is a sure path to failure of transparency, and a failure to serve the citizens.

Eighty-one percent view her unfavorably, with 69 percent having a very unfavorable view.

The time for a litmus test has come, said Merrill Matthews, resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas. “Republicans tend to say they won’t impose a litmus test, but it’s probably time to change,” he said.

If Donald Trump were successful, multinationals like Apple, Google, they wouldn't have to try to use the tax system to hide their profits in other countries, IPI's Merrill Matthews tells The Street's Emily Stewart.