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February 2025

Trump abdicates U.S. role as leader of the free world
Now that U.S. commitments are untrustworthy, there will be a geopolitical realignment among other democratic countries.
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Robert Robb
Give the market a chance on housing
Only freeing up supply and demand can produce the volume and diversity of housing stock required to broadly restore affordability. Politically, it's…
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Robert Robb
The Full Trump
Trump is duplicating Biden's mistake of misreading election results.
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Hobbs should accede on rural groundwater management
The GOP proposal is good enough to give it a chance, and much better than continued stalemate.
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Robert Robb

January 2025

Reasonable, and unreasonable, state and local roles in immigration enforcement
If American politics were healthier, this wouldn't be such a controversy.
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The Hobbs political tightrope
How does she work with a GOP Legislature that won't work with her?
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Both proponents and opponents misrepresenting the Laken Riley Act
Democrats cease holding immigration enforcement hostage to legalization.
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The politics of a protective tariff don't work for Trump
The costs of a protective tariff are immediate and traceable, while any benefits are long-term and diffuse.
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Robert Robb

December 2024

Democrats didn't have that bad of an election
Given the adverse presidential playing field, Democrats won a lot of races, nationally and in Arizona, that they easily could have lost, and arguably…
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Ugly Americanism as a foreign policy strategy
Although not yet president, Trump is throwing Truth Social thunderbolts at other countries.
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Do bruising defeats mean the end of open primaries as a reform?
Looking at the electoral challenge somewhat differently.
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