Let’s cut to the chase. Most of Donald Trump’s threats against Ivy League colleges are an attempt to divert attention away from an economy heading into crisis. The trade war is producing economic and foreign policy nightmares. Despite the DOGE show, budget deficits are projected to rise ...

When I was in college, one of the part-time jobs I had was working for Terrible Terrance Tree Service. Terrance’s full-time job was working for the college in building and grounds, mostly as a tree trimmer. This was in the days when the elms were dying from Dutch Elm Disease and, since the ...

Tax policy experts and lawmakers have long circled 2025 as a year to prepare for. What makes it so significant? For one thing, Federal COVID money to states is expiring, straining state budgets at the same time the economy is starting to weaken. For another, Republicans in Congress are ...

One of the first orders of business for each new Congress is securing committee assignments. Lawmakers are assigned to committees to divide up the work. This allows members to dive into policy areas and conduct the people’s business, from the budget to taxes, health care, agriculture and ...

Aconstitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there. The Institute for Justice, a national nonprofit law firm, wrote Decatur County Attorney Alan ...

One of President Trump’s 111 record setting executive actions, 25 proclamations and 27 memoranda called for election security. Such an action should have been initiated by our 535 Congressional delegates, but they didn’t. Seeing Trump 2.0 in action, Congress should have clarified the ...