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24 Dec 2008, 4:01 pm
-- Posted by Neil H. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm
While we wait to see how much damage Republicans in the House of Representatives are willing to inflict on America and the world—all in the pursuit of preventing millions of uninsured people from having access to affordable health care—the rest of the world is dealing with its own political dramas. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 3:30 am
Neil H. [read post]
17 May 2012, 2:06 pm
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27 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
Republican politicians are having a very difficult time defending their House and Senate tax plans as they try to rush something to Donald Trump’s desk before the end of the year. [read post]
6 May 2015, 9:01 pm
One of the classic examples of misdirected anger involves a stern, humorless clergyman who stands in his pulpit in front of rows and rows of mostly-empty pews. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm
The brief, contrived controversy over whether “Obamacare will kill 2.5 million jobs” is, thankfully, receding from the public’s memory. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
The Enlightenment led to the development of the essential institutions of modern society. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
Every Spring, as the tax-filing season gets into full swing, a passel of anti-tax lobbying organizations attempts to scare and outrage the public by pointing to our supposedly high and oppressive taxes. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
The two most recent attempts to reform the American health care system, in the early 1990s and early in this decade, were notable for what the would-be reformers refused even to consider: single-payer health care. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
The magazine Harper’s has a feature in each issue called the “Harper’s Index,” which presents an eclectic array of statistics in provocative ways. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
In my most recent Verdict column, I described why the conditions that Europe’s leaders have imposed on Greece are both unreasonable and economically myopic. [read post]
21 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Last year at this time, there was a political and media frenzy surrounding the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service had apparently singled out certain right-wing groups for some sort of extra scrutiny in their applications for tax-exempt status. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm
Last week, a minor national debate erupted regarding the etiquette of reclining one’s seat while flying in the economy section of an airplane. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
When politicians need to make a safe appeal to voters, one of their tried-and-true applause lines is to declaim loudly that “our children and grandchildren” should be the focus of our concern. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
The dominant news story of the past week has been the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “torture report,” which documents the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that the Bush/Cheney Administration carried out (mostly via the Central Intelligence Agency), supposedly to reduce the risk of future terrorist attacks. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm
Early last week, a media firestorm unexpectedly broke out about a government report that, according to Republicans, proved that the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA—or, to Republicans, the dreaded “Obamacare”) would “kill” millions of jobs. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the Hobby Lobby case continues to reverberate in legal and political circles, with seemingly every angle of the majority’s bizarre decision being scrutinized, defended, and ridiculed. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
This week, the Trustees of the Social Security Administration issued their annual report on the state of Social Security’s finances. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
The New York Times’s new “Upshot” section provides useful evidence-based reporting about current political and economic issues. [read post]
