Even In the worst of times, politics can be funny.  Joe Manchin, Democratic senator from West Virginia, filled me with mirth when he said he would oppose President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” budget. He didn’t want to foster an “entitlement” culture, he

How large should government be? That’s the question Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, asks as he lays out the traditional Republican argument for why he thinks the country is in economic free fall. Predictably, as a Republican who served in George W. Bush’s administ