I kind of hate to be so snarky about this, because University of Michigan semi-celebrity economist Justin Wolfers makes some good points in this NYT op-ed, the central one of which is this: People think of higher prices as something that is being (unjustly) imposed...
Author: Paul Campos
A big new study published in the Lancet tracks global fertility patterns over the past 80 years, and projects them out over the next 80. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has.
Former President Donald Trump used his Easter morning to share an article claiming he is "the chosen one" and was sent by God. A Gateway Pundit column by conservative podcaster.
So Friday I'm far up in the mountains when I get a call from a CNN producer, who is thinking about doing a segment on Saturday morning regarding whether Sonia Sotomayor should retire. We kick it around for a few minutes, and then schedule it....
You can't (yet) find a better example of the randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency-riddled nature of American presidential elections than what happened in 2000. Consider everything that had to happen for.
The purpose of this thread is to discuss the stalled military aid package to Ukraine, which is being held up by the Putinist traitors in the GOP House caucus, who.
This essay by Annelle Sheline, a State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden administration's Gaza policy, raises indirectly a number of practical questions: Across the federal government, employees like me have tried for months to influence policy, both internally and, when that failed,...
As always, it's hard to sort out the grifters from the marks when it comes to the pervasiveness of right wing propaganda: A Republican state representative in Michigan, Rep. Matt.
This is a truly fascinating NYT investigation of how Clarence Thomas came to hire a virulent racist as one of his judicial clerks. Some background: For a law school graduate,.
I'm actually looking forward to Erik's obit more than I was to the opening game of the 2023 Michigan football season. Consider this thread an amuse-bouche of schadenfreude.
Truth Social has a revenue stream comparable to that of a moderately successful local restaurant, and expenditures comparable to those of 25 moderately successful local restaurants. It has a current.
Sonia Sotomayor has been a great SCOTUS justice, but: (1) The odds of Democrats holding the Senate this November are slim. (2) The Senate electoral map is bad again in.