Climate Change Status Update

A few days after President Obama announced his climate change initiatives, I was catching up on my NYRB back issues and happened...

Obama Takes the Lead on Climate Change

President Obama’s speech last week (video, transcript) on climate change was important in all kinds of ways.  The steps he’s...

Good Cause: Nonprofit teaches girls in India to value all life

There was a very nice piece in the Naperville Sun last week about Kuldeep Sra and his efforts to help...

Politics is a Team Sport

This piece today from Johnathan Cohn, on the way the Republican Senate candidate in Massachusetts is running away from his...

Cohn: Anatomy of a Bogus Obamacare Argument

Obamacare exchange premiums in California were published a few weeks ago, and the news was good.  Premiums are significantly lower...

Wonkbook: The GOP’s Dangerous Obamacare Strategy

Wonkblog describes the Republican strategy on Obamacare (emphasis added): Republicans who’re unable to repeal it also refuse to permit any tweaks...

ObamaCare Exchanges Already Lowering Health Care Premiums

…from Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog this morning: Wonkbook: Some very good news for Obamacare Obamacare got some very good news on...

Fed Chair Bernanke: Congress, Get Your Foot Off The Brake!

The evidence is piling up more and more deeply that austerity (i.e., cutting spending) is the wrong policy for the...

Reich: The Hollowing-Out of Government

Thanks to my friend Bob Rohr for pointing out this great piece by Robert Reich.  Reich documents how the GOP...

Health Care Inflation Receding; Conservatives Flummoxed

Nice data-driven, semi-scornful piece today from Jonathan Chait on the right’s scurrying reaction to the recent slowdown in healthcare costs....