We wish to extend our thoughts and prayers to the victims of those who have died or been injured by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma,  and Maria and ...

Credit to Matthew Yglesias for his discussion of the incompetence of Donald Trump as well as the excuses for it from his defenders includin...

Buried on the back pages of this busy week has been the news that in Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday there was a referendum on independence report...

Yes, for a period of time, according to some sources, I was a member of the "Kaldorian" school of Post Keynesian  economic thought...

The Jones Act was passed 97 years ago to protect US shipping within the US from foreign-made ships.  I doubt I ever would have supported suc...

As someone who has denounced the Saudi leadership and its new crown prince, Muhammed bin Salman, for maintaining their nation's position...

Apropos #takeaknee and the previous post: Most of the discussion about whether NFL and other athletes should stay on their feet during the...

United States Code Title 18 § 227 #TakeAKnee

This is the bane of urban development, right?  Old housing stock, built for yesterday’s working class, is spiffed up and priced far out of r...

Among the least persuasive writers on contemporary politics, for me, is Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Mind you, I often agree with him, but only becaus...

The following email was forwarded to me and many other Evergreen faculty: On [date deleted], students, staff and faculty of The Evergreen ...

We are at this very odd moment now.  We thought ACA was saved by a narrow vote some months ago, when John McCain joined Susan Collins and Li...

A year ago—it already seems like another era—an initiative to set up a carbon tax in Washington State, I-732, was defeated by the voters.  T...

Was this the message of the title of the latest from Dean Baker : The economies of a single system can be viewed as analogous to the Social...

I apologize if this seems an esoteric topic, but it is one that seems to be a matter of seriously contentious dispute, as well as one that I...