Latest articles by James Pethokoukis
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Trump's stock market recoil
opinion Trump loved the stock market — until it didn't love him back
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Death of the debt hawks
opinion Will the GOP ever care about the debt again?
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Has Trump already fixed the U.S. economy?
opinion America's economy is getting better. How much credit does Trump deserve?
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The astonishingly weak antitrust case against Facebook, Google, and Amazon
opinion Where's the proof they're harming consumers?
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The great smartphone panic of 2018
opinion Are you reading this on your smartphone? Then get over it.
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Trump's foolish economic Cold War with China
opinion Why is the president so set on antagonizing China?
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Americans might really like the Trump tax cuts. What will Democrats do then?
opinion Democrats seem ill-prepared for the inevitable
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No, Republicans are not going to take your Medicare
opinion There is no grand plan to slash America's social welfare state, no matter what Democrats want you to believe
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Why a tax bill failure would be good for the GOP
opinion Another legislative faceplant would be embarrassing. But in the long run, it might just be a good thing.
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America's national debt will never, ever go down
opinion Everyone loves to complain about the debt. No one likes doing anything about it.
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Why driverless cars will be the next battlefield in the culture war
opinion This is going to make gun control look like Kumbaya
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The House GOP's tax bill is a dud — and they know it
opinion The Senate would do well to just ignore it completely
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Tax cuts are not worth the GOP's soul
opinion It profits a party nothing to give its soul for the whole world ... but for tax cuts, Republicans?
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Uncle Sam is not going to smash Silicon Valley
opinion Just consider what happened after the financial crisis
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Trump's speech to truck drivers proves the GOP's economic policy is stuck in the past
opinion The U.S. economy must pivot to the future. But the GOP is soaking in economic nostalgia.
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Hey, Democrats: It's okay to like tax cuts
opinion Remember when Obama wanted to do it?
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Why can't the GOP come up with any serious ideas?
opinion The GOP needs to get real with its voters — and itself
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The magical thinking of Medicare for all
opinion What math-defying tax cuts are to the GOP, single-payer now is to Democrats
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America needs tax reform. But not like this.
opinion The GOP will likely pass tax reform — but it will be the wrong tax reform
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Against a guaranteed jobs program
feature During the Great Depression, the government created thousands of jobs for the unemployed. That would never work today.
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Our fear of killer robots might doom us all
opinion At the very least, this technophobia seems destined to hamstring our economy
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Conservatives turn on Silicon Valley — and the free market
opinion Now the right wants to harshly regulate tech companies. Wait, what?
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This is not Trump's economy
opinion If anything, it's Obama's
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America's imminent productivity boom
opinion Why the U.S. might not need the GOP's tax reform after all
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