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The moral case for higher interest rates
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
September 30, 2022
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s efforts to cool down the economy are causing progressive criticism to heat up. He has been accused of wanting a ...
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America’s Constitution is conservative, like it or not
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RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
June 27, 2022
Conservatives are, by and large, thrilled by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions. It has expanded its conception of gun rights that states have to re...
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A conservative plan to strengthen families, post-Roe
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
June 21, 2022
Conservatives who want an economic policy that supports parents have long been a minority faction within the Republican Party. In 2017, when Republica...
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GOP looks to extend midterm inflation advantage
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
May 15, 2022
Inflation is likely to be the most powerful issue working for Republicans in this year’s congressional elections. Public concern over it has been risi...
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Biden’s State of the Union was a repeat performance
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RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
March 3, 2022
The state of Joe Biden’s presidency is enfeebled. His popularity has been dropping for months. The left and right wings of his party blame each other ...
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Republicans should rethink idea-free campaigns
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
January 25, 2022
Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...
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The great inflation debates
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
January 4, 2022
Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a...
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Fauci can’t use science to excuse his missteps
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
December 3, 2021
Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, keeps...
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Americans think economy is bad because it actually is
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
November 16, 2021
Commentators friendly to the president couldn’t understand it. The economy was expanding. Unemployment was falling. But the public was unhappy about t...
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