When Republicans take power, they generally try to make the electorate smaller and more affluent.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Rock out. With Jonathan Richman covers.
Maybe he was a good restaurant critic -- although there's considerable debate on that point* -- but on politics, Bruni was awful. It's hard to know what the Times was.
Joe Nocera's pleas to accept the Ryan plan as a conversation-starter notwithstanding, there's no conversation less in need of starting than the conversation about how to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits. It's hard to think of another topic Beltway pundits are more likely to...
The terrorist threat that constitutes much more of a present danger to Americans than the kind that compels executive branch officials to ignore the Constitution.
Federal judge rules that the ban on direct corporate contributions to candidates is unconstitutional. It is still not clear whether the 5-4 decision ultimate holding the initial ruling will be.
Yglesias: Watching Paul Ryan earlier today talking at the Peterson Fiscal Summit I was amazed by the number of times he said the word “Mediscare,” which is a conservative jargon term for telling the truth about proposals to eliminate Medicare. Krugman: Mr. Ryan may claim...
I have a new TAP piece about the unacceptably high vacancy rates on the federal courts. The best symbol of Republican obstructionism, to me, isn't Liu. I believe he should.
Ur doing it wrong. I would particularly interested to know how the dean in this case believes knowledge could ever advance if criticizing someone else's ideas constitutes "harassment."
Admittedly, the Court's five conservatives are siding with conservative ideology against business interests here, but Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is an interesting case for other reasons as well. The ruling handed down today concerns an Arizona law that 1)provides sanctions against employers that hire...
Even by the standards of a movement that considers Maggie Gallagher an intellectual, assertions that no gay or lesbian could judge a case concerning gay and lesbian equality are mind-blowingly.
Bill Clinton played a lot more footsie with the Pain Caucus than I would have preferred, but Ryan's attempts to protray him as a supporter of his plan to destroy.