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12 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the defining challenges of our time is the preservation of our ideal of government by the people, with threats around the globe showing that democracy is always in danger of slipping away and being replaced by dictators of various stripes. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
”For those intrepid readers who want to get into the weeds of MMT, New York Times economics reporter Neil Irwin has offered a very fair primer (even though he is not a believer). [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Senator Bernie Sanders is unhappy about the media’s coverage of American politics, and he has a point. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
Neil Buchanan Joins UF Law Faculty (Apr. 9, 2019): The University of Florida Levin College of Law is pleased to announce that Neil H. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
To talk about the Democratic Party in 2019, it seems, is to talk about a completely contrived “civil war” between the center and the left, with Bernie Sanders being the avatar of the supposedly out-of-control emboldened lefties who will scare away moderate voters and inadvertently help Donald Trump stay in the White House.This is nonsense on stilts, but that has not stopped it from becoming part of the conventional wisdom. [read post]
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]
6 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Just as Joseph Stalin famously sneered at the supposed power of the Roman Catholic Church, asking “[h]ow many divisions” the Pope commanded, Trump could ask of Republicans on Capitol Hill (and in the courts), “You might have impeached me, but I’m not leaving. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The shockwaves of the British public’s narrow 2016 vote to leave the European Union continue to roil the United Kingdom, with fraught negotiations seeming to go nowhere in advance of the hard deadline in late March for the country to make its exit. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There is a damaging narrative emerging in the mainstream media, avidly fueled by conservatives who claim to be opposed both to Donald Trump and the current Republican Party, to the effect that Democrats are in danger of “moving too far left” and need to “rein in the extremists in their party. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been the most creative policy thinker in Washington ever since she arrived on the scene little more than a decade ago. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
With Democrats now in charge of the House of Representatives and early in the process of trying to retake the White House in 2020, all policy ideas are on the table. [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]
14 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Public attention has recently been focused on this month’s midterm elections, where Democrats have seen results that were even better than reasonably could have been anticipated (and that could soon be better still). [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In these final weeks and days before the midterm elections, a sub-genre of interesting commentary has arisen that focuses on how many young people will vote in 2018. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In the chaos of our current political era, it can be difficult to stay on top of—or even to remember—all of the dangerous statements and policies that Donald Trump issues daily from his perch in the Oval Office. [read post]