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

Trump mocking Biden on clean energy is everything wrong with today's GOP

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Feature

Why Republicans still aren't serious about social media regulation

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Opinion

The winning re-election argument Trump could have made

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Opinion

Wall Street won't let Trump steal the election

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Opinion

What Biden-omics ignores

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Analysis

Did the Fed give us Trump?

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Opinion

Is the pandemic propping up the DNC?

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Opinion

The terrible trade-off of keeping schools closed

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Opinion

Why aren't Republicans trying to juice the economy?

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Opinion

Wall Street pines for President Biden

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Opinion

Trump's visa ban is economic suicide

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Opinion

Maybe the stock market isn't crazy

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Opinion

What the SpaceX launch represents

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Opinion

Three cheers for the world's first trillionaire

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Opinion

How the virus could weigh down America's economy for the long haul

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Opinion

Why can't America build things anymore?

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Opinion

The left refights the financial crisis

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Opinion

Washington's misguided pivot to infrastructure

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Opinion

America is going to need a bigger stimulus

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Opinion

The best way to avoid a coronavirus depression

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Opinion

Congress needs to start writing checks

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Opinion

Is coronavirus really a black swan event?

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Opinion

A coronavirus recession would likely end Trump's presidency

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Opinion

There's a way Democrats can beat the Trump economy — but they won't like it

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Opinion

What would Trump do in a second term?

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Opinion

Why Wall Street isn't freaking out about Bernie Sanders

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Opinion

Late capitalism isn't killing us

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Opinion

Has Bernie Sanders learned anything over the past 50 years?

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Opinion

Trump just ran a two-year trade war experiment. It failed.

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Analysis

America dreams of Chinese state capitalism

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Feature

The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital

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Opinion

What has 'Trump the disrupter' actually disrupted?

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Feature

Escalating the trade war is risky for Trump. Signing a deal with China may be even riskier.

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Opinion

Democrats are running into Trump's economic buzzsaw

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Opinion

What left and right alike get wrong about 'late' capitalism

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Opinion

Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is bad politics and worse policy