
Tag: Republican malgovernance

We need to recenter Bush's own culpability for the disaster that was the Iraq War in particular, and his presidency in general
More than 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. If the United States was governed by a barely competent and vaguely public-spirited administration, the country might have suffered somewhere in the
A superficial analysis of the House Republicans’ pledge to vote to repeal health care reform is that it’s nothing more than a symbolic gesture. While many might downplay their modest int
John Styles, via Chris Blattman: About a week after the earthquake, economist Tyler Cowen wrote that Obama looked like the “Haiti president”: Obama will (and should) do something about thi
In fairness, I think the comparison is unfair to Hoover…
I would expect career civil servants to do a better job than political appointees in any case, but I do wonder whether there’s a difference between the parties. Republicans, after all, expect go
Yglesias makes a couple good points about the failure of the bailout bill. I especially agree that Paulson isn’t getting nearly enough blame for having completely botched the process at the star
Chris Cox.
- Trump reaches out to Garland to explore what could be done to keep his supporters from murdering a few federal officials here and there
- There is no right to a captive audience
- The night of the short knives
- The curious case of COVID mortality rates among young adults after vaccines became available
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,177
- What whistle is Trump blowing?
- The potential reverse thermostatic effects of Dobbs
- What a dick
- Preparing For The Civil War
- GOP members of Congress lobby oil companies to do more to fight efforts to battle climate change