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Bidens budget would spend big and create even more debt - a gamble that wont work out well, if history and other countries are any indication.

It’s the start of a new month, the unofficial start of summer. That makes it the perfect time to talk about the newest voices on the USA TODAY Opinion team. Starting this month is Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times best-selling author, whose latest book, Daughters of Erietown, is released in paperback today. She’s a frequent public speaker and guest on national television and most recently wrote a nationally syndicated column. Her new weekly column will ...

Arizona Democrats put the brakes on a bill requiring that voters provide proof when returning their early ballot. But the fight is far from over.

Arizonas leaders are proof that we need nonpartisan elections. But ironically, were moving away from the reforms that could make that happen.

Arizona Supreme Court ends case of voters who want to toss elections, put themselves in office Richard Ruelas, Arizona Republic © Brian Snyder In the last general election, nearly 90% of votes in Arizona were cast using alternative methods, columnist Robert Robb says we dont need restrictions to vote. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain the case of a group of anonymous voters who wanted to toss out the past two statewide general elections, depose the of...

Will the Arizona House finally give voters a say on in-state tuition for Dreamers? Denny Barney and Sintra Hoffman Dreamers deserve legal status. Republicans dont get that Replay Video Sometimes good policy and good politics converge.  The state House on Monday takes up Senate Concurrent Resolution 1044, which will let voters the decide whether to give the children of undocumented immigrants, sometimes called “Dreamers,” or DACA kids, the opportunity to attend college on t...

Kyrsten Sinema could be the 50th vote for — or against — Bidens ambitious agenda. So what does she want? Andrew Romano Last week, President Biden came before Congress to kick-start the next phase of his presidency, calling on lawmakers to pass $4.1 trillion worth of legislation meant to modernize America’s infrastructure, combat climate change, expand education and shore up the safety net for working families — “a fundamental reorientation of the role of government not...

The left should level with the American people about financing the European-style social democracy they are attempting to establish. That begins with jettisoning President Joe Biden’s fiction that his proposed massive increase in the federal government’s role in the economy and in American life can be paid for without any tax increase on those earning less than $400,000 a year. All of this is well illustrated by what he proposes to do with the child tax credit. This isnt a limited, anti-pov...

The claim: Parents in Vail, Arizona, took over the school board and removed the mask mandate A group of parents protesting mask mandates recently swarmed a Vail Unified School District meeting in Arizona, sparking online claims of a school board takeover by the group.  The protest followed Arizona Gov. Doug Duceys April 19 announcement rescinding the statewide order that directed K-12 schools to require masks. This gave districts the option to implement their own face-covering policies,...

President Biden has promised an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system that would include legalizing the roughly 700,000 young immigrants known as “Dreamers.” But Biden can’t even get support in the evenly divided Congress to legalize them, let alone anyone else. We can only hope that Biden eventually drums up enough backing, but we shouldn’t wait idly for that to happen. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers can give “Dreamers” a dose of hope. He can’t legalize them, of cour...