By Karen Dolan, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies

The debt ceiling should be abolished. It has no connection to the real economy and it’s of no use except as a weapon to take the government hostage. McCarthy’s faction couldn’t care less about the debt ceiling when it comes to unfunded wars, tax cuts for the wealthiest and ballooning the Pentagon budget. But let it be about doing their job and keeping the rest of us afloat and they go into full fiscal terrorist mode. 

By Bernard Goldberg, Emmy Award-winning author and journalist

Tucker Carlson hit it big because he understood the cable news business model: Pander to your audience. Give them the kind of news they want to hear. Never surprise them with inconvenient facts. Give them red meat so they’ll come back for more. You get big money for doing that. You don’t get fired — until you become more trouble than you’re worth. Until you become an embarrassment to your employer.  

By William S. Becker, former U.S. Department of Energy central regional director

The only totalitarian thing in the ESG universe is how conservative lawmakers are inserting themselves between financial managers and clients who want their money put into socially and environmentally responsible enterprises. The government has no business interfering with that relationship.

By Charles Gardner Geyh, Distinguished Professor and John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at Indiana University

The court’s steadfast refusal to join the rest of the American judiciary and adopt a code of conduct for itself is a matter of petulance, not principle, that reflects a stunning lack of concern for its own declining legitimacy.