James Pethokoukis

Columnist

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.

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Opinion

Biden's next big win?

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Opinion

Did Russia prove China is our real rival?

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Opinion

The last thing the economy needed

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Opinion

Why Russia has nukes but not much money

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Opinion

The Biden-toppling boomflation

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Opinion

Empty conservative panic over Big Tech

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Opinion

Reagan's supply-side economics get a Biden update

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Opinion

Inflation is now a real, serious threat to Biden

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Opinion

Why Apple's $3 trillion valuation bodes well for us all

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Opinion

Is nuclear fusion finally for real?

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Opinion

Grateful for Jerome Powell?

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Opinion

Democrats' vintage lesson on inflation

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Opinion

Democrats' agenda is decimated. And that's okay.

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Opinion

Will Democrats give up tax hikes to save the world?

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Opinion

Time to settle

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Opinion

A tax reckoning for the left

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Opinion

Do declining birth rates affect the economy?

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Opinion

Lessons of the GDP report

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Opinion

The benefits of billionaires in space

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Opinion

The surprising warnings in Biden's budget

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Analysis

Who's right about inflation?

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Opinion

The economic threats that could derail the Democrats' election dreams

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Opinion

What the Elon Musk backlash is really about

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Opinion

The GOP's economic confusion

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Opinion

Does America really have an infrastructure crisis?

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Opinion

Biden risks the future to juice the present

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Feature

America is headed back to space. This time we'll stay there.

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Opinion

Democrats' dangerous inflation assumption

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Opinion

Biden is not going to get his $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. And that's okay.

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Opinion

The conservative case for Trump's Twitter ban

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Opinion

Shouldn't Wall Street be more concerned about the Capitol insurrection?

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Opinion

Hollywood besmirches Ronald Reagan again

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Feature

Let's not screw up the U.S. economy now

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Opinion

Is the great stagnation over?

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Opinion

What progressives get wrong about 'corporate welfare'

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Opinion

Cheer up, Democrats: Biden could've easily lost