Building on yesterday’s post about how despite the low unemployment numbers, people’s lived economy is basically terrible, Jacob Hacker has a very useful op-ed in the Times on the same iss
Great point by Paul Waldman about how the media demands that Democrats reach out to largely unpersuadable Republican voters, but never vice versa: The presidential campaign has begun, which means that
From a very interesting piece on how Raj Chetty is trying to change the way economics is taught at Harvard (and indirectly in the rest of America): Because Harvard has a tendency to set the pattern fo
This is the grave of Marshall Field. Field’s tombstone claims he was born in 1835, but online sources say 1834. You’d be surprised how often the dates on tombstones are inaccurate. Anyway,
Others have covered it, but there can’t be too many articles about an essential weapon in the fight against fascism: sarcasm humiliation. OK, sarcasm too, if it humiliates. Nothing animates the
Well, here’s more reason for Beto to drop out (even if, as far as the TX Senate seat is concerned, I’m fine with M.J. Hegar): Woof. At this point, it’s Biden, Bernie, Warren, Harris
Apparently a lot of people think the answer to this question is “no.” What I haven’t seen is any coherent defense of this, to me, obviously absurd proposition. When a tenured Harvard
Judge Amit Mehta began his opinion responding to Donald Trump’s request to get a subpoena for his financial records quashed by invoking one of Trump’s most obvious predecessors in presiden