It seems a bit anti-climatic after today's Presidential performance, but I have a piece (co-authored with Abe Newman) at Vox's "The Big Idea" section on burden-sharing. The title is somewhat misleading: the crux of our argument is that the benefits of burden-sharing are overblown, the...
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My default blogging mode is pretty snarky. I guess, in that respect, I'm an old-school academic blogger. The common approach now seems to be professional and scholarly. But sometimes it's appropriate.
Today in the annals of #NotTheOnion, we have this column at Fox News. Donald Trump is stone cold sane. When a man acquires billions of dollars through complex real estate.
Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigns after destabilization campaign by US spies, Democrats, press https://t.co/vKlX1Tqek1 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 14, 2017 Here's the House Intelligence Committee Chairman only hours before Flynn resigned: “It just seems like there’s a lot of nothing there,” Nunes told Bloomberg...
With Kellyanne "Bowling Green Massacre" Conway on videotape violating ethic rules, it was Stephen Miller's chance to do his best Joseph Goebbels impression on the Sunday talk shows. He did.
I mean, you want to say it's the Trump administration, right? Carl Higbie has interviewed for the position of White House press secretary, according to two senior administration officials familiar.
With Ivanka's Nordstrom contract and Melania's lawsuit evidently more important than national security, jobs, or any other problem the nation is having, one wonders how far the Republican Congress will put up with the open, lawless grifting. I imagine really far, but Conway's actions is...
Tom Perez was probably the most effective Secretary of Labor since Frances Perkins. The Department of Labor was unusually integral to promoting a liberal agenda in Obama's second term. The.
Donald Trump reacts to Melissa McCarthy's portrayal of Sean Spicer in the most Trump way possible. More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was.
Day 15. By @PatChappatte https://t.co/8OWv55IpHp pic.twitter.com/l3YZ7fsfMF — NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) February 3, 2017 It will take about six minutes to watch Colin Kahl, former Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President, explain why: Sean Spicer lied in his attempt to...
The first two weeks of fascist America have really endeared us to the rest of the world. This week's cover of Der Spiegel: Maybe we can go to war with.
The Democratic Senate should refuse to vote for Neil Gorusch—or any Trump Supreme Court nominee—until the GOP holds hearings and votes on Merrick Garland. If the GOP calls their bluff, and defeats.