NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Trump administration's zeal to peel back regulations is leading us to another era of robber barons

  • Written by Jeremi Suri, Professor of History and Public Affairs, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair, University of Texas at Austin
imageEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is an unabashed ally of the fossil fuels – industry his agency is supposed to regulate. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

The Trump administration has a clear economic objective: deregulate. Loosening regulations on industries, the White House believes, will lead to faster growth and more jobs. This is the stated reason f...

Read more: Trump administration's zeal to peel back regulations is leading us to another era of robber barons

More Articles ...

  1. In Mexico, undocumented migrants risk deportation to aid earthquake victims
  2. Marketing a devastated Puerto Rico should not be the priority
  3. In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy
  4. How closing the door on the estate tax could reduce American giving
  5. Can you be hacked by the world around you?
  6. How a growing Christian movement is seeking to change America
  7. How to ensure the fourth industrial revolution is 'Made in the USA'
  8. Do people like government 'nudges'? Study says: Yes
  9. How Obamacare has helped poor cancer patients
  10. Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine
  11. Coastal protection on the edge: The challenge of preserving California's legacy
  12. Gentrification? Bring it
  13. In Latin America, is there a link between abortion rights and democracy?
  14. Trump's policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them
  15. What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie's disdain for inherited wealth
  16. How the stoicism of Roman philosophers can help us deal with depression
  17. Nobody reads privacy policies – here's how to fix that
  18. Why having the sex talk early and often with your kids is good for them
  19. How the US government created and coddled the gun industry
  20. Economist who helped behavioral 'nudges' go mainstream wins Nobel
  21. Why would the Trump administration ban travel from Chad?
  22. Why Rick Perry's proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101
  23. For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place
  24. Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'
  25. What makes American society so violent? 4 essential reads
  26. The 'inevitable sadness' of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction
  27. How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol
  28. Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
  29. Bundy trial embodies everything dividing America today
  30. Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
  31. Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
  32. Blade Runner's chillingly prescient vision of the future
  33. Knowing the signs of Lewy body dementia may help speed diagnosis
  34. Should Uncle Sam 'send in the Marines' after hurricanes?
  35. Catalonia's referendum unmasks authoritarianism in Spain
  36. The opioid epidemic in 6 charts
  37. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
  38. How 'Germany's Hugh Hefner' created an entirely different sort of sex empire
  39. Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
  40. Do tax cuts stimulate the economy more than spending?
  41. The enduring power of print for learning in a digital world
  42. I've spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and it wasn't just objectification of women
  43. How inherited fitness may affect breast cancer risk
  44. Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
  45. How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics?
  46. After a disaster, contaminated floodwater can pose a threat for months to come
  47. Scientists join forces to save Puerto Rico's 'Monkey Island'
  48. Governments, car companies must resolve their competing goals for self-driving cars
  49. How dangerous people get their weapons in America
  50. Nobel winners identified molecular ‘cogs’ in the biological clocks that control our circadian rhythms