Tag: Trump administration
For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced; Christos Makridis, Stanford University; Patricia Smith, University of Michigan, and William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Editor’s note: We...
Why Trump’s plan to forbid spouses of H-1B visa holders to...
Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
On Dec. 14, the Trump administration announced a regulatory change that would strip spouses of high-skilled foreign workers...
Why justice is more important than the rule of law
Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College
The 2017 Stress in America survey has confirmed it: Americans are officially freaking out.
The survey, conducted by the Harris Poll, reports...
GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique.
It is the heart of the American dream. A decent income...
President Trump’s national monument rollback is illegal and likely to be...
Nicholas Bryner, University of California, Los Angeles; Eric Biber, University of California, Berkeley; Mark Squillace, University of Colorado, and Sean B. Hecht, University of...
Should lying to the FBI be a crime?
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
On Dec. 1, Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to the charge of lying to...
Taxpayers want more fairness. GOP plan to ‘reform’ the tax code...
Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan
Republicans seem to be operating under the assumption that if the details of their tax “reform” plan are aired for...
‘Hot potato’ shows why workers won’t benefit from Trump’s corporate tax...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
Many children have played hot potato, a game in which they pass a spud to other children quickly so they...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
