Tim Noah makes the case that is so bad that we should kill it. Tim also provides an update from Sam Stein and Ryan Grim : The preliminary...

It is bad enough that we have to watch the Dow slip below 13,000 in fear of the impending fiscal cliff, but now our economy is threatened by...

While E. Cary Brown died in 2007, any intelligent commentary on fiscal policy should consider his 1956 paper - Fiscal Policy in the Thirties...

When I read the latest from Greg Mankiw , my initial reaction was to think he was being argumentative: I often disagree with Paul Krugman, ...

Two figures have held near-dictatorial sway over a majority of members of Congress for several decades: Grover Norquist and Wayne LaPierre. ...

Brad DeLong is unhappy with how President Obama is negotiating with the Republicans on the wrong fiscal issue as he cites reporting from...

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Yet again we have had a nutcase engaging in mass murder in the US using semi-automatic weapons with massive magazine capacities.  We banned ...

Kevin Drum has a short and sweet analogy for the position that the assets in the Social Security Trust Fund are real: Now, suppose this su...

So, Very Serious People are pushing the chained price index as a preferred alternative to the CPI for indexing future Social Security benefi...

A lot of pundits this weekend were calling the latest news from the BLS as good news. Yes – the payroll survey showed a modest increase...

The New York Times has an interesting story today on the failure of social responsibility monitoring to prevent catastrophes like the gar...

Andrew Taylor reports that the President has proposed what should be a no brainer: President Barack Obama's proposal for $60.4 billion...

In WaPo of 12/7/12 Fareed Zakaria calls for an eventual end to the officially designated "War on Terror."  I fully agree.  He note...

I had more thoughts last night on the politics of Lincoln . 1. My parents would have loved this film.  Their volumes of Carl Sandburg’s b...