Every night, Grover Norquist goes to bed and dreams of a world without taxes.  A world where private companies unilaterally control America’s economic future, and the government is simply there to act as a bumbling referee.  In Grover’s fantasy world, nearly everything is privatized, and all those dastardly poor people are thrown off of the entitlement programs [...]

With all of this political speak about jobs, job creators, employment, workforce and labor participation, Ithink it’s worth writing about the impact of technological change on the economy. With 7.9% of the United States Labor force unemployed and estimates predicting the natural level of unemployment in the United States may have risen as much as [...]

As students and Americans, it is hard to assess what knowledge and information we are responsible for in order to be a virtuous American citizen. Now that we have the right to take part in elections, a new responsibility is put on our shoulders. We are asked to vote for the individuals we want to [...]

I think we’ve all read more than enough about why the Republicans lost last week’s election and how the party needs to change in the future. Still, everyone seems to be focusing on demographic changes: embracing immigration reform to appeal to Latino voters, taking a softer stance on the social issues that young Americans have [...]

If anything deserves a moment of reflection after Tuesday’s election, it’s not Obama’s win, but Romney’s loss, and what it will mean for the future of the Republican Party. And if anything surprised you about Tuesday’s election, I hope it wasn’t President Obama’s reelection. Because the polls were clear. Call me crazy, but unlike many [...]

I promise this is the last political piece I’m writing this year. I’m sorry that everyone is tired of hearing about politics and I’m sorry that more than half of you probably won’t read this because you saw the word politics and clicked next. * * * * * Tuesday was the first Election Day [...]