See Adrianna McIntyre and Jon Cohn. You might think that enacting similar reforms, only with an additional huge expansion of Medicaid, would count as the most important legislative victory for progressives in decades. But remember, when Mitt Romney signed a bill passed by massive supermajorities...
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What seems like an appalling decision to prosecute has, unfortunately, resulted in a guilty verdict. More here.
Kathleen Geier has a terrific account of the strengths and weaknesses of the late economist.
In the aftermath of the most disgraceful opinion handed down so far by the Roberts Court, Paul observed that "[t]he majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder is the worst SCOTUS opinion I’ve ever read, considered simply as an exercise in formal legal argument. And...
There are two rather obvious flaws Freddie deBoer's critique of Elias Isquith. Here's his first argument: The dominance of personal branding and cultural signalling over political theory means that liberal.
The greatest running back in NFL history is, some allowance for hyperbole aside, making sense: The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created," the Hall of Fame.
The letter of the law might give someone who should be clearly guilty of first degree murder a plausible defense: Seventeen-year-old Diren Dede lost his life Sunday, while in Missoula, Montana on a high school exchange program from Germany. He was shot dead at the...
This won't come as a surprise to longtime readers of this blog, but I heartily endorse this event or product: Jacksonian populism cannot be separated from the genocidal policies of.
Shorter Scott Atlas: "It's appalling that the Affordable Care Act destroyed the universal, equitable health care system Americans enjoyed in 2009." I don't know how much refutation is necessary for.
When actually existing Greens in New York didn't want to follow the lead of their 2000 presidential candidate and act as a cat's paw of the Republican Party, Republicans tried to do it for them: What kind of shenanigans are going on now?" That's what...
Advanced analytics -- they're what you should use if you're interested in winning. But if you want to think that Calgary and Toronto represent better strategies for franchise-building than Chicago,.
A fascinating interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jess Bravin (non-paywalled excerpts here.) First, of particular interest to me, is that she seems to confirm that the Court ducking the.