It is now a tradition in the United States Congress that whenever the new national budget and the national debt limit come for approval, politics get mixed up with economics. In 2007-08, when the country faced high unemployment and low inflation, Tea party and other conservatives wanted to ...
When Donald Trump reentered office in 2025, he inherited a strong economy partly fueled by the possibility of lower taxes on capital, fewer overbearing regulations, energy abundance and the rise of AI. Instead of stewarding that prosperity and optimism, Trump quickly upended it through a ...
It's high time commentators stop trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn't fit. Donald Trump's brand of government is as unique as it is volatile. Sometimes history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes a whole new species bursts onto the scene. We’ve never seen a ...
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old. Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit. Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs ...
Convocations are over and our graduates have taken their pictures — some with us, their professors, dressed in our medieval robes and funny hats. Grades have been turned in and the cyclical stillness that comes with the summer is descending on our Weber State University campus. My dear ...
Several decades ago, my youngest daughter, all of three years old, responded to my request that she clean up some toys she didn’t want to clean up by standing before me, hands on her hips, chin jutted out and eyes blazing as she defiantly told me, “You can’t make me!” The thought that ...
