Tag: Trump administration
Trump’s ‘America first’ trade policy ignores key lesson from Great Depression
Charles Hankla, Georgia State University
President Donald Trump declared his nearly two-week trip through Asia “tremendously successful,” but economic history should make us more skeptical....
Subsidizing coal and nuclear power could drive customers off the grid
Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
Within the next month, energy watchers expect the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to act on an order from Energy...
Mortgage interest deduction is a terrible way to help middle-class homeowners
Gil B. Manzon Jr., Boston College
Republican lawmakers’ plans to rewrite the tax code would make it harder for most Americans to take advantage of...
GOP plan to tax college endowments like Yale’s and Harvard’s would...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Tucked away in the recently announced GOP tax bill is a small item you may have missed: a...
US shouldn’t give up benefits of ‘green card lottery’ over low...
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
After a man barreled down a New York City bike path on Oct. 31, killing eight, President Donald Trump reacted by...
I’m a librarian in Puerto Rico, and this is my Hurricane...
Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico - Humacao
I’ve always been fascinated by storms, particularly Puerto Rico’s own history of them. I think it’s...
How the US tax code bypasses women entrepreneurs
Caroline Bruckner, American University
As Republicans in Congress put the finishing touches on a tax plan that’s aimed at overhauling the system, there is one...
The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will...
Hari Osofsky, Pennsylvania State University and Hannah Wiseman, Florida State University
On Oct. 10, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt formally announced a repeal of the Clean...
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
