Cesar Conda is a Republican policy adviser and lobbyist who served as chief of staff to Senator Marco Rubio. A longtime advocate for pro-growth economic policies, he contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on tax policy, trade, foreign affairs, and executive power from 2004 to 2016.
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's announced "separation" from the United States and his anti-American rhetoric have left the four million Filipinos and Filipino-Americans like me who live in this country perplexed and troubled. Many of us have friends and family in the Philippines who benefit…
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s announced "separation" from the United States and his anti-American rhetoric have left the four million Filipinos and Filipino-Americans like me who live in this country perplexed and troubled. Many of us have friends and family in the Philippines who benefit…
Senator Barack Obama declared in a recent interview on the business cable channel CNBC: "Look, I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market." And Obama's economic team appears to support this claim. His main advisers, Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee, are both centrist, pro-free traders;…
Tax reform has been the Holy Grail of conservative economists since the early 1990s. But after years of conservative ascendance in Washington, the tax code remains a mess.
THE 400th ANNIVERSARY of Act One, Scene One of American history will be celebrated on April 29, 2007.
While the prospects for pro-growth legislation--tax reform, personal retirement accounts, pro-trade deals, and legal reform--may have ended with the election of the new Democratic Congress, there is an array of actions that President Bush could take to help the economy, without having to go through…
WHO IS the unilateralist candidate for president this year, the man who's willing to push our allies away and who questions the patriotism of those who disagree with him? That would be John Kerry, at least on the issue of trade. Kerry may like to portray himself as a multilateralist, whom foreign…
IT WAS HARD TO TELL from the headlines and instant controversy, but President Bush's January 7 immigration speech was not about granting amnesty to illegal aliens. Instead, the president has proposed a measure that would dramatically curtail illegal immigration. However, to the consternation of…