When it comes to trade policy, Hillary Clinton is taking heat from all sides.

If the economy is always the pre-eminent issue in American politics, then the employment report out today, combined with the news that wages are growing most strongly for the working class, ought to be the conditions for social rest. Instead, we have the highest degree of social unrest since the late 1960s, with political violence and extreme rhetoric dominating the scene. 

While the political parties duke it out over divisive social issues, the majority of Americans remain steadfastly in the middle. . . .

Republican senators are offering a united front to block a Democratic bill that would revamp the rules for Wall Street. But the GOP's hard stand against the bill is not without political peril, party strategists warn...

Congressional leaders quickly recognized that enacting an expensive plan to steady the financial industry shortly before an election depended upon convincing voters it was needed to save the economy rather than bail out Wall Street high-fliers...

Carly Fiorina has been by all accounts an above-average performer in the Republican primary debates, even if she’s logged her above-average performances by being a lying liar whose answers bear little reference to reality.

Beware a fetish for 'data' and faux statistical exactitude.

“Carly Fiorina will probably regret her push for vaccine ‘choice,’” predicted a Washington Post headline last week, referring to statements she made while campaigning in Iowa for the GOP presidential nomination.

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, offers insight into the deficit, the debt burdens of all taxpayers, and whether more taxes or reduced spending will get us back on track.