The Labour Party in the UK is flirting with re-nationalising British Rail. Fares are due to increase an average of 6% this year, and Britain already has the most expensive train system in Europe: Making it clear that Labour agreed with many ideas in the report,...
I have more on the revelations about Roberts's switch. Among other things, I note that the story that some of the leaking justices/clerks want to tell -- about Roberts being.
Gov. Luthor turns down the Medicaid money. To be clear, Scott's position is that poor people should be stricken with debilitating illnesses and in some cases die unnecessarily because he.
Doubling down on her contrarian take on the Supreme Court and the PPACA, Marcia Angell provides as undiluted a version of the BULLY PULPIT fallacy as we're likely to see: On July 22, 2009, Obama said in a press conference, "Now, the truth is that unless...
If you haven't yet seen it, Corey Robin, Chris Bertram, and Alex Gourevich have a magnificent, epic post at CT on freedom and the workplace in the context of an ongoing.
Jan Crawford has reporting that confirms what one could infer from the opinions -- Roberts switched: Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to.
Bernard Finel and I refrain from talking about health care:
Now that the constitutional questions regarding the ACA have been surprisingly determined, attention is shifting to the political implications that this has for November. I've built a little (emphasis on.
Bill Scher has an important article distinguishing the fantasy FDR and LBJ from the real ones: The necessity of corporate support for, or at least acquiescence to, liberal policies is.
The destruction of the world's cultural heritage always makes me want to cry.
It is becoming apparent that Joe Paterno not only knew that Jerry Sandusky was a child rapist, but that he was probably the person most responsible for covering up Sandusky's.
For those who want some mobile Lemieux analysis, I'm on the Prospect podcast with the great Jamelle Bouie, Jaime Fuller, and Patrick Caldwell. While in both the podcast and my.