Publications

President Trump seems to think we don't tax Japanese automakers, but we do. And Trump's suggestion would tax Americans instead.

Want to find more money to pay public school teachers? Begin draining the administrative staff swamp, which sucks so much money out of the system.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could allow states to force businesses in other states to collect internet sales taxes for them, not because of declining state revenues, but because of increased state spending.

The U.S. economy has shifted from strength to uncertainty, and both because of President Trump's policies: Economic strength emerged from his regulation and tax cut efforts, and uncertainty from his tariff threats.

Aggressive use of the Impoundment Control Act could restore some sanity to federal spending and create consensus toward revision of the filibuster rule.

There are some good reasons for asking a citizenship question on the U.S. census that might inform various policy debates, such as identifying the number of uninsured.

There are multiple non-human-caused factors that affect Arctic sea ice: Here two of them.

President Trump hopes to make tariffs great again. But economists learned several lessons from the past big tariff push in the 1930s. Here are some of those lessons.

Welfare recipients need jobs and employers need workers, especially now. Gov. Scott Walker has one solution for both problems.

If Democratic leadership thinks the way to respond to the Republican tax cut is to argue for tax increases, they may be throwing Republicans just the lifeline they need for the midterm elections.