Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans would add enormous amounts to the national debt, with some estimates as high as $15 trillion over a decade. But some of his tax cuts stand apart in threatening one of America’s most revered programs, Social Security. They would essentially bankrupt it ...
On Saturday, Trump opened his speech at the airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with 12 minutes of reminiscences about the golfer Arnold Palmer, who grew up in Latrobe and for whom its airport is named. As The New York Times reported, “His monologue culminated in lewd remarks about the size ...
A political rule of thumb is that candidates should never offend a large group of voters, especially close to an election. Harris ignored that rule, not once, but twice last week. First, she disrespected the annual Al Smith dinner in New York, which raises money for Catholic charities and ...
Despite Americans in 2024 having access to more high-quality, well-sourced information on every topic known to man, somehow, we’re seemingly also the most ill-informed people in human history. I turn for evidence to a statement that a member of Congress was forced to release in response to ...
If Donald Trump loses the election, to hear him and his campaign tell it, the fate of the Republican Party should be the least of our concerns: his defeat would spell the end of the nation itself and all that we hold dear. But let’s assume that Trump and company are exaggerating and that ...
The United States is at a crossroads. You may have heard that Social Security is politically impossible to reform. But that belief will be hard to sustain. In a few years, the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. When that happens, Social Security benefits will be cut across the board ...