Great post by Brad Plumer on the subject of the 1996 welfare reform bill. The key point is that most assertions that welfare reform has "worked" reference nothing more than the fact that fewer people on welfare. And as Brad notes, this is just a...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter Verbatim Mark Steyn: "Ann Coulter’s new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with...Lest you doubt the left’s pieties.
This gets it right.
Make sure to remember these disgraceful actions of the Alabama Democratic Party the next time you hear "Mudcat" Sanders or some other idiot go into the umpteenth self-pitying rant about how the Democrats can't possibly afford to write off the Deep South. That's the Democratic...
Because the blogosphere tends to skew toward the opinions of educated elites, it's relatively hard--even among conservative blogs--to find nice, chewy wingnuttery on the subject of the decision to make.
Having beaten the Giants while the Cardinals were busy getting swept by the Pedro-and-Glavine-free Metropolitans, I note that Rob's Redlings are now tied for first in the Central. I doubt.
To given an indication of how much worse things could get, a veritable Federalist Society All-Star panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit (Douglas Ginsburg--who, if I he [much as I'd like to take credit for that--ed.] didn't smoke pot with his students would probably...
Shorter Jack Shafer: I have yet to be convinced that an article exclusively about why men shouldn't marry women with incomes over $30K isn't gender neutral. The fact that the.
The FDA does, at long last, the right thing. I'm not going to give much administration much credit for finally getting beyond letting the likes of David Hager interpose his.
Ira Katznelson's recent book is a tour de force, a lucid account of an important historical phenomenon which incorporates the insights of historical institutionalist analysis without bogging down in jargon. The book--which begins with a discussion of LBJ's "To Fulfill These Rights" speech--consists largely of...
Frequent contributor gmack sent me a link to this bit of self-parody, which is apparently part of a "make Steve Forbes' economic theories look rational by comparison" campaign. Fortunately for.
Oh, sure, George W. Bush may have singlehandedly thwarted the terrifying numerologically determined impending attack from Iran by personally throwing the Bill of Rights and the United States Code into.