Clive Crook

The idea is to advance US interests by merging policies on trade, international finance and national security – at the expense of friends and adversaries alike.

An honest debate over “good” versus “bad” DEI could get the US closer to policies and practices that promote merit, color- and gender-blindness and equality of opportunity.

The outgoing president’s abandonment of pledges to govern as a unifying, pragmatic moderate dismantled the public’s trust, to the point where a shameless political grifter of no fixed ideology seemed the better bet.

Don’t laugh — pray: One of the best, and maybe only ways, for the US to arrest its spiral of deficits and debt is a new bipartisan fiscal commission.

Filing taxes, enrolling in Medicare and accessing Social Security don't have to be impossibly confusing for US citizens.

The central bank’s messaging needs to focus more tightly on incoming data, not on plans and promises, and it can start by abandoning its “dot plot.”

The shocking public reaction to the murder of a health care CEO is the latest sign of how fragile norms in America have become. Break one, and others start to crack.

Government should help stranded workers and communities, but tariffs and subsidies will neither spur a factory renaissance nor create the jobs of the future.

A united Democratic Party with a clear message would have handily won this year’s election. But that would have required a willingness to reckon with its own divisions.

Both would be better off today if they had honestly confronted the issues that motivated Brexit and that now drive nationalist-populism in Europe.