Shorter Verbatim David Brooks: "The federal government should borrow money at current interest rates to build infrastructure, including better bus networks so workers can get to distant jobs. The fact that the federal government has not passed major infrastructure legislation is mind-boggling, considering how much...
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Related to our discussion of Bartlett's story yesterday, Julia Azari has some interesting thoughts about how to think about Obama's ideology here and here. On voting rights, the GOP is.
Shorter John Roberts: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Unless racial discrimination can provide electoral assistance to.
Bruce Bartlett has an American Conservative cover story arguing that Obama is best described as a moderate Republican. It is...not persuasive. I'll leave aside the arguments about foreign policy, simply because these issues don't break cleanly on party lines, so foreign policy views can't really...
But I'm sure this is a total outlier: For 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took classes with no assigned reading or.
I am not particularly thrilled about the prospect of a noncompetitive Democratic primary with Hillary Clinton as the presumptive nominee. An article that explained why and how a candidate could.
Charles C.W. Cooke is very upset that people who oppose antidiscrimation laws are compared to people who oppose antidiscrimination laws: In this manner, too, have we come to discuss the ever-diminishing scope of private property rights, our debates centering nowadays not on whether individuals should...
The scope of the attack remains unclear, but this is evidently a frightening development.
The Titantic, the Hindenberg, the 2007 New York Mets, Martha Coakley: National Democrats are haunted by memories of Martha Coakley's unforced stumbles and missteps in 2010, which cost them a.
Let's just say that when Russell Brand briefly had that dreadful show that followed up Louie -- come back Colin Quinn, all is forgiven -- his choice of sidekick was Hank Kinsgley Mr. Matt Stoller.
R.I.P.
Really good fan's perspective from Rany Jazayerli, especially the risk you know going in that this could be like the '07 Rockies. I'll be rooting for KC, but above all.