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Right Thing, Wrong Reason: Killing the Republican Tax Plan with Anti-Deficit Arguments Is a Bad Idea
15 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
In the American political conversation, there is never a shortage of uninformed nonsense about budget deficits and the national debt. [read post]
8 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
The first column on Justia’s Verdict was published on June 27, 2011. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
When it comes to policy matters, it is nearly impossible to know what Donald Trump wants to accomplish. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
Is support for Donald Trump a function of economic anxiety or bigotry? [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
For now, the debate over taxes has subsided in this country. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
That Kennedy would deem it acceptable to be replaced by someone whom Trump will select based on the recommendations of the extremists who have taken over the party (and who gave the world a second Clarence Thomas in the person of Neil Gorsuch) is absolutely astonishing. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
These are people who, unlike the vast majority of voters, believe to their core that stroke-the-rich tax cuts are always a dandy idea, and they do not object at all to having the courts packed with judges who are not just conservative but radical reactionaries in the mold of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.The but-taxes and but-judges mantras, after all, are merely part of an intramural argument among conservatives who have split over the question of whether selling out one’s… [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
”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 May 2023, 9:01 pm
” Even the most committed textualist should find that laughable.To be fair, Klein frames that discussion as a matter of asking what three arch-conservative Supreme Court justices—John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch—might be convinced to endorse, and he notes later in the essay that this Supreme Court has shown us that once-nutty arguments are no longer off the table.Even so, when Klein turns his attention to the second argument, this is his transition sentence:… [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
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2 May 2018, 9:01 pm
Is there an affordable housing problem in major American cities? [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
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]
29 Oct 2024, 5:53 am
As it happens, Trump’s people talked about this very idea four years ago, and the Buchanan-Dorf-Tribe trio wrote a piece debunking it here on Verdict: “No, Republicans Cannot Throw the Presidential Election into the House so that Trump Wins. [read post]
29 Jul 2024, 9:00 pm
His 2021 comments attacking people without biological children, for example, included this question (which he apparently thought was rhetorical): “[H]ow does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it? [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Even that, however, would not help Republicans.Let us imagine that the White House follows the Buchanan-Dorf plan and tells the Treasury to keep calm and carry on. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Having witnessed decades of shocking cynicism on the part of Republicans, I sometimes think that I can no longer be shocked when they become even more cynical. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
[Note to readers: In my January 20 Verdict column, I related information from an American émigré in Canada who described the process of becoming a Canadian citizen as “easy. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
In my writing here on Verdict and elsewhere over the last few years, I have offered assessments of the American political system that are decidedly pessimistic. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
After the Republican presidential candidates held one of their joint press conferences (also known, quite inaccurately, as debates) on the cable network CNBC in October, the candidates and their handlers engaged in a gratuitous round of press bashing by complaining vociferously about the questions that they were asked. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
“A government of laws is ultimately a government of men and women who honor and protect those laws. [read post]