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What is going on at The Washington Post opinion page?

John Fea   |  February 28, 2025

Did The Washington Post just become The Wall Street Journal? It sure seems like it. Here is Michael Schaffer at Politico: On Wednesday morning, outgoing Washington Post Opinion Editor David Shipley huddled with his soon-to-be former staff. Barely an hour earlier, owner […]

What is “progressive capitalism”?

John Fea   |  May 13, 2024

Nobel prize-winning Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz lays it out in today’s Washington Post. Here is a taste: Champions of the neoliberal order, moreover, too often fail to recognize that one person’s freedom is another’s unfreedom — or, as Isaiah […]

Has the GOP rejected Reaganomics?

John Fea   |  August 8, 2023

Check out David Leonardt’s interesting piece at The New York Times: The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has spent the last few months trying to boost Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign. It has called his legislative record “as impressive as […]

Mike Pence: “Conservatives can either be for politically motivated government intervention in the private sector, or we can be against it.”

John Fea   |  June 26, 2023

As the populist candidates for president attack woke corporations, Pence is trying to shore-up his lane as the Ronald Reagan candidate. Today he turned to the libertarian Reason magazine to defend free markets. Here is a taste of his piece […]

Charles Koch and his network will oppose Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries

John Fea   |  February 5, 2023

The conservative, libertarian, free-trade organization Americans for Prosperity, led by billionaire businessman Charles Koch, does not want Donald Trump to be the GOP nominee in 2024. Today Emily Seidel, the CEO of Americans for Prosperity, released a memo on the […]