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10 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I argued in a recent Verdict column that Donald Trump and the Republicans are wrongly trying to save their political hides by distorting the word “socialism” to scare self-described moderate voters into rejecting the Democrats. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
They might not have gotten Neil Gorsuch onto the Supreme Court, but they certainly could have negotiated rightward from the (already completely centrist) nominee Merrick Garland.Moreover, this was all in the context of Republicans holding majorities in both the House and the Senate. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat to enact their agenda, and Kavanaugh’s tag-teaming with Neil Gorsuch and the other extreme conservatives will guarantee that the small subset of Kennedy’s legacy that non-conservatives admired will be expeditiously erased. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There is also a demand-side effect to tax cuts, which means that any boost to the economy might not be a result of supply effects but simply of people spending their increased take-home pay (that is, demanding more goods).In any event, conservatives accused liberals of being single-mindedly obsessed with demand, when in fact liberals were perfectly willing to follow the evidence to either the demand- or supply-side policies that would help the economy.It was in fact the conservatives who were… [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The president of your party has spent the summer attacking you and removing the last iota of deniability about the racism and xenophobia that animate his presidency (and much of your party). [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” Professor Michael McConnell’s name is on that piece, but I confess that I am almost tempted to think that it was written by ChatGPT, because there were only a few points in the piece in which it was possible to discern any attempt at an argument, and more importantly, at no point did the piece address the actual Buchanan-Dorf arguments that Tribe summarized.I should note that maybe-McConnell did not even read Tribe’s piece, much less anything by Dorf and/or… [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As Professor Neil Buchanan, an economist and law professor at George Washington University, pointed out three years ago, the last major federal budget deal of the Obama years included a ticking time bomb. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the more remarkable aspects of President Biden’s time in office so far has been the Republicans’ lack of anything resembling a policy response. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the safest statements to make in public life (and in the economics profession, as I will explain below) is that “free trade” is good. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Republicans have been gunning for Social Security for decades. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The world is still in the early stages of trying to comprehend the horrors that took place in Paris last week. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
My recent columns here on Verdict and on Dorf on Law paint an unmistakable picture of doom and gloom. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
More than twenty years ago, a new front in the culture wars opened up with a controversy over the decision by a fictional TV character, Murphy Brown, to have a baby while remaining single. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
With yet another dreary made-for-TV “debate” (and the scare quotes are truly appropriate here, because these are most assuredly not debates) in the books for the Democratic presidential candidates, and with the Iowa caucuses now less than three weeks away, commentators are intensifying their “soul of the Democratic Party” analyses and weighing in on the party’s center-right versus center-left schism that has become especially pronounced in the past year.That is not to… [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There was never any mystery about Donald Trump’s ignorance of the Constitution or his disdain for the rule of law. [read post]