Republicans have read the politics of the Trump era to suggest they should no longer even pretend to care about the federal deficit, while Democrats are going even further, promising to expand the reach and scope of the entitlements driving the deficit, writes Yuval Levin.
Progressive activists attached themselves to Social Security expansion because it promised no compromise with conservatives who long sought to reduce the growth of benefit costs. In the process, however, they will run into conflict with fiscal conservatives in their own party, explains Andrew Biggs.
Gary Schmitt and Michael Mazza write that China's interference in Taiwan’s democracy — efforts to influence politics in Taiwan through both overt and covert, both legal and illicit means — is important for not only Taiwan but also the United States.
Williamson College of the Trades is a character-driven trade school enrolling 260 students, all of whom graduate debt-free. Frederick Hess talks with President Michael Rounds about how it works.
In this report, Nicholas Eberstadt and Alex Coblin attempt to extract meaningful information about Chinese urbanization and migration from demographic and socioeconomic statistics, including official Chinese population data. They pay special attention to China’s 2010 census, the most recent detailed official compendium of data concerning urbanization and migration.
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