I have enormous respect for Ralph Nader.  I think he has accomplished as much for social progress in the US as any white guy in the last 50 ...

Sandwichman is certainly not the first to comment on the uncanny facial resemblance between Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy. The resemblance is ...

Regarding Joe McCarthy, I am reposting this from Ecological Headstand, December 2012: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with...

All the Very Serious People are jumping up and down and cheering.  We have a budget deal in the House and the debt ceiling is being raised a...

In today's Washington Post the usually egregious Robert A. Samuelson has written a column, "Dump the debt ceiling," whose main...

Ipod spawned the talk radio star. Last summer I had the pleasure of attending the 50th anniversary reunion of my high school graduating cl...

OK, so now we have had the long awaited showdown between Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi Select Committee, which looks to have been a trium...

So, once again I must declare spoiler alert as I am going to correct errors in a big Hollywood movie about historical events, although Steve...

Nice to see that a consortium of oil companies wants to keep global warming at 2ºC .  Here’s the thing, though: preventing catastrophic clim...

Yes, folks, you heard Anderson Cooper hand it out, and Bernie Sanders did not deny it: he and his wife "honeymooned in the Soviet Union...

In a previous post I referred to the economic principle that low interest and discount rates translate into greater concern for the future ...

I think Farhad Manjoo draws the wrong lesson from the Leap debacle.  Leap, you’ll recall, was the private, for-profit and very posh bus ser...

Folks, I ususally do not do this sort of advertising, but it is picking up commentary here and there, so I problably should.  The journal ...

There’s an interesting quote from Axel Weber, one of Germany’s most influential economists, transmitted by Dean Baker this morning: “When...

A comment to my last post, on the Litan affair and the importance of disclosure, has got me thinking.  As was point out, Litan had disclose...