Today’s New York Times has a self-celebratory story by Margaret Sullivan, its usually perceptive public editor, that tells us how independ...

From Robert Paul Wolff , describing the anticipation of aging socialists like himself that another Great Depression would fulfill the prophe...

B. Summary Response to the Commissioner's Instructions The Commissioner's instructions to the panel open with a general paragraph ...

One way to think about the shock of the Snowden revelations is that the NSA was much more skilled at surveillance, hacking and data-parsing ...

A. Instructions of Michael W. Straus, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, to Panel of Consultants on Secondary or Indirect Benefits The P...

Little, I.M.D.. Ethics, Economics, and Politics: Some Principles of Public Policy , 2002: Cost-benefit analysis compares states of affair...

My governor, Jay Inslee, has proposed a state-level carbon cap for the largest business emitters.  By auctioning the permits, he expects to...

From today's Times: (On Ebola) "scientists on the new study estimated that 70 percent of cases in West Africa go unreported. That...

Rarely is the question asked, how is our university students learning? True or False? The theory of anthropogenic climate change attribut...

From Mark Bittman : This brings us to the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for carrying out nutrition labeling in restau...

Normalization of relations between the US and Cuba is a mortal threat to the version of socialism that has survived on that island.  Its dem...

From Timothy Noah at Politico Morning Shift ("your daily speed read on labor and employment policy): The machines-mean-fewer-jobs vi...

Does anybody really give a shit about the " genealogy and critique of applied welfare economics "? Apparently not. Ninety-nine vie...

Actually Mankiw gives a nod to this . Skipping the Republican spin – this plan lists three things (I guess): “Ending the Unfairness in t...

From the New York Times : “The Europeans regard the settlements [on occupied Palestinian territory]  as illegal; Washington regards them as ...