Chait: It Is Not 1968

Welcome perspective from one of my go-to voices, Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine: It Is Not 1968 By Jonathan...

Readings: Bernie and Hillary, Exploding GOP, Motivated Reasoning

Readings: Bernie and Hillary, Exploding GOP, Motivated Reasoning

My (19-year-old) kid never misses a chance to remind me how Bernie is his guy (and sometimes to throw shade at...

2015 Hottest Year on Record

My current favorite blogger, Jonathan Chait, takes great pleasure in skewering the flailings of climate change denialists like George Will....

Chait: Sorry, Conservatives, Obamacare Is Still Working

Regardless of what the GOP wishes were true, Obamacare is working very well, thank you very much, with fewer Americans...

Last Night’s GOP Debate: GOP Candidates Living in Imaginary World Lack Prescriptions for The Real One

The wonderful Jonathan Chait on last night’s GOP Debate: Republican Candidates Have Trouble Making the Case for Change Early in...

Readings: “Job-Killing Obama”, GOP’s Arms-Length Relationship with Facts, Bernie, Gov Rauner, etc

First, let’s compare job-creation records under Obama and under W (courtesy of Dr Krugman): …other things I’ve been reading lately:...

Republicans Going All-In to Take Health Care Away from Millions of Americans

“Obamacare is a failure because our sabotage has successfully slowed its implementation.” So we’re approaching the Supreme Court’s decision on...

Wildly Successful Government Program Still Unpopular Because … Well-Funded Lies

A determined and unscrupulous actor can, given enough funding, create a completely false impression in the public mind.  Despite the...

In Which the GOP Discovers Inequality

Yes, the GOP has discovered inequality, but only as a cudgel with which to beat Democrats.  They never minded it before;...

GOP Casts Out Tax-Cut Unbelievers

It is GOP orthodoxy that tax cuts on the wealthy (aka, “job creators”) are always and forever called for.  It...