Readings: Democracy, Obamacare, Inequality, Climate Change, Asymmetric Polarization

I’ve been struggling with the problem of how to share some of the useful things I come across.  I find interesting...

Belated (my fault) Year-in-Review from Robert Reich

I don’t always keep up with all the bloggers I like to read, but sometimes it’s worth a quick review....

Big Things Obama Did In 2014 Despite Republican Stonewalling

…from our friends at TPM (the full text is at the link): Big Things Obama Did In 2014 Despite Republican...

More Than 300,000 Marchers in Last Weekend’s People’s Climate March

Climate change is the most consequential issue we face today.  In this country, mostly due to the lunatic extremism of...

Obama EPA Releases New Climate Rules

Of course Republicans are attacking the new climate rules.  This GOP believes that if Obama says it, they are obliged...

Why This Week’s SOTU Was So Much About the Economy

Jonathan Chait wrote a piece yesterday on why Obama felt obliged to devote so much of Tuesday night’s State of...

Filibuster Reform At Long Last

Republicans have now transcended the usual political debate over who should occupy the seats on [the D.C Circuit Court] and moved into...

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...