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Sun, December 6, 2020 | 10:07

Biden team will have to reinvent fiscal policy

President-elect Joe Biden has named the leaders of his economic policy team. His most important nominee - Janet Yellen, for Treasury secretary - is an especially wise choice, for her breadth of experience and expertise, and for the respect she commands across the political spectrum. The rest of the lineup - which includes Cecilia Rouse at the Council of Economic Advisers, Nee...

2020-12-03 17:00

Time for compromise

Democrats and Republicans in Congress both claim they want to pass a new federal stimulus bill before President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan. 20. The only question is whether lawmakers can find the political will to compromise on a relief package that is desperately needed as coronavirus cases surge nationwide.

2020-12-03 16:20

Biden's challenge: Restoring US as leader against global warming

The election of Joe Biden as president signals a return to sanity in the federal government's approach to climate change. For starters, Biden at least recognizes the severity of global warming's impact on the people who are feeding it - us - and has vowed to confront it head on with ambitious programs aimed at shifting the nation to renewable energy sources and decreasing car...

2020-12-02 16:30

Biden must build US diplomacy back better

In January, Joe Biden will take charge of an executive branch left in woeful disrepair. Practically every important federal institution has been scorched by four years of sustained assault by his predecessor - none more so than the State Department.

2020-12-01 17:45

Peru should give its latest president a chance

With the Nov. 17 swearing-in of Francisco Sagasti as interim president, Peru has its third head of state in a little more than a week. Sagasti's charge will be to run the country through new presidential elections next April. The Peruvian people can only hope the country's legislators allow him to stay in office that long.

2020-11-30 16:40

Talking tough about truth

Talking tough about truth

Those of us who are used to covering the high-flying first days of America's most-promising presidents-elect reflexively shift into wait-and-see skeptic mode when they effusively introduce their new Cabinet advisers to the world.

2020-11-29 17:18

Putting Americans first alongside allies

Putting Americans first alongside allies

Does anyone recall the old Alka-Seltzer commercial that sang: “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh what a relief it is?” That song ricocheted 'round my head as the Trump administration finally greenlit a transition period to the Biden presidency.

2020-11-26 17:05

Trump outsources drug price regulation

President Donald Trump has largely been a corrosive force on health care issues, working to undermine the Affordable Care Act and advancing policies that favored younger, healthier people at the expense of Americans with preexisting conditions. But on prescription drugs - an area largely overlooked by the ACA - he's aligned himself with the millions of consumers deeply concer...

2020-11-26 17:04

Biden builds a solid foreign policy team

Global challenges won't wait for President Donald Trump to accept his clear defeat. So President-elect Joe Biden has been wise not to wait either, especially when it comes to forming his foreign policy team.

2020-11-25 17:00

Schools need reliable guidance on reopening

One of the most frustrating aspects of the pandemic has been watching school districts try to navigate the complexities of remote learning with so little guidance from Washington, D.C. The silence is equally deafening when it comes to figuring out when and how districts should reopen their campuses.

2020-11-24 16:52

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