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10 Oct 2017, 2:55 pm
The first reason, one the authors acknowledge, is that the specific facts matter enormously, and they are not yet in. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
He is trying to do what he has clearly intended to do all along, which is to stay in office no matter what. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 9:00 pm
”Most Americans do not have a meaningful opportunity to emigrate, mostly as a financial matter but also for any number of personal reasons. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
These seemingly separate matters have something important in common: Democratic elites’ willingness to elevate their own personal comfort above all else by supporting conservatives’ slanders and actions against the left.Again with the Cancel Culture? [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
” It will be: “I didn’t lose, no matter what the evil press and the deep-state conspiracy says. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 5:00 am
Growing evidence of environmental disaster has not led to anything close to the changes needed in global policies that continue to make matters worse. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 9:00 pm
Gross debt, as opposed to net debt, includes borrowing that the federal government quite literally owes to itself—that is, debt that one federal agency borrowed (as a matter of internal accounting) from another federal agency. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
They were already well practiced at it, so it was only a matter of turning the volume up to eleven.Sadly, then, we can expect competitive, small-d democratic elections to end after this year. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
Are we at the mercy of global financial markets, the so-called Bond Vigilantes so frequently invoked by Wall Street analysts? [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
I have been predicting for the last several years that the United States is on the precipice of ending its experiment in representative democracy, through which we have enjoyed the benefits of living under the rule of law. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
If he has less than 270, he could still win by keeping Biden’s total under Trump’s number.But assuming no third-party candidate is in play, is it not true that Trump would (as a matter of simple arithmetic) win more than 270 if he keeps Biden under 270? [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
The debt-scaremongers prefer to focus on “gross debt,” but that measure includes debt that the government owes to itself and thus means nothing.)Based on pre-crisis forecasts, federal debt was set to rise under Trump administration policies by about one trillion dollars per year, which is generally faster than we would want but hardly catastrophic, or for that matter irreversible. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
This would happen entirely because Republicans think that cutting off this source of financing at an arbitrary time will force Biden and the Democrats to capitulate.No matter the reason, global financial markets would seize up, and the immediate and far-reaching consequences would be enormous. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
In any event, the explanations for Trump’s continued support by roughly forty percent of the U.S. voting population are still uniformly ugly.Whose Bigotry Matters? [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
(Again, even though I disagree with Republicans on the substance of their policy agenda, the idea that they should—or would—refuse to do as they wished whenever they hold a majority is silly.)As a practical matter, it might be that certain policies are de facto irreversible, at least as a matter of realpolitik. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
What matters, in any case, is not what they call themselves but what they do.In any event, Stanford’s administration continues to defend its scapegoating of the least powerful person in the room. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 2:40 pm
If the President were to be selected by the House under the relevant provisions that we describe below, each state—no matter its population—would get exactly one vote. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 11:00 pm
The next month, Daniel Levin, the new head of the OLC, authorized the use of the waterboard for a particular detainee (although the CIA did not ultimately use the waterboard in that instance).In December 2004, as has been previously reported, Levin issued a new memo on interrogation techniques, to replace the withdrawn August 1, 2002 memo. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 9:02 pm
” It is all a matter of what we come to accept.Speaking of Reagan, Paul Krugman made a great point in a recent newsletter (behind a subscription paywall, unfortunately), noting that in the 1980s the Republicans “were strutting around boasting about their victory over inflation, and the public didn’t see inflation as a major concern. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
After all, Republicans are already proving that it does not matter how strongly the public supports gun control or abortion rights. [read post]
