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8 Feb 2017, 3:09 am
I don’t know if my end-of-April prediction will hold true, but I do expect Neil Gorsuch to become a Justice on the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
It turns out that the attacks on Senator Elizabeth Warren for not yet having explained in detail the financial underpinnings of Medicare-for-All were pretextual and dishonest. [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
“The rise of economics is a primary reason for the rise of inequality. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
It sometimes seems that every policy disagreement is immediately turned into a constitutional question. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
It is absolutely essential that Congress pass a massive economic rescue package, as soon as possible. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
As the political situation in the United States becomes uglier and more threatening, many people are wondering what to do if (or, I have argued, when) things here go from very bad to horrible. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Notwithstanding the meaninglessness of early polling, the central message of former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign has been that he is the best hope to win against Donald Trump. [read post]
13 Feb 2025, 9:01 pm
There is no escaping the fact that the United States is now being wrenched into a new reality that replaces the rule of law and democratic accountability with a naked version of autocratic rule. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
Two days ago, all but five of the fifty sitting Republican United States Senators voted to dismiss the House’s second impeachment of Donald Trump, relying on the nakedly dishonest argument that the Constitution does not allow former federal officials to be impeached and tried by Congress. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 9:12 pm
One of the puzzling contradictions about higher education in America is that it continues to be a great individual investment even as it has become more and more difficult for individuals to afford. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 6:16 am
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.) speaks, he sometimes tells the truth. [read post]
16 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
The world is in turmoil, and even our calm and friendly neighbors to the north might no longer be immune to the strains of totalitarian right-wing lawlessness that have infected other countries, most prominently the United States. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
12 May 2021, 9:01 pm
The title of this column is gibberish, and there is a very good reason for that. [read post]
3 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Is American society being overcome by an oppressive gang bent on stifling other people’s free speech—and even worse, are people now self-censoring in ways heretofore unseen, to avoid the wrath of so-called woke mobs who are intolerant of dissenting views? [read post]
14 May 2023, 9:00 pm
Desperate times demand desperate measures. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
Fearmongering about the national debt is so common in the US that we often barely even notice when it is happening. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
In a world that is stranger than anything we ever could have expected to experience, we are now so regularly shocked that it actually becomes shocking when something still shocks us.That has been true in a general sense for several years, as people have been dismayed by how many norms and precedents Donald Trump has handily destroyed—and by the Republicans who have abandoned seemingly every principle they ever claimed to hold dear in order to enable and abet their new leader. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
When Republicans have retaken both houses of Congress and have installed either Donald Trump or his anointed successor in the White House in January 2025, what will they do next? [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, Senate Republicans announced that they have decided not to participate in the necessary adjustment of the federal debt ceiling at the end of this month, playing politics once again with the full faith and credit of the United States of America. [read post]
