{"id":2192,"date":"2026-08-11T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:29:46","slug":"krugman-and-the-politics-of-falling-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"Krugman and the Politics of Falling Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/724144_1_.jpeg\" \/><br \/>Paul Krugman remains one of the left&#8217;s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump&#8217;s ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump&#8217;s policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump&#8217;s policies truly reflect &quot;cruelty,&quot; how should we account for the lives they may have saved &#8211; particularly the lives of black Americans, who suffer a disproportionate share of murder victimization?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman remains one of the left&#8217;s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump&#8217;s ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump&#8217;s policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[450,1249,4103,3085],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crime","tag-falling","tag-krugman","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}