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9 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
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]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
As the country and the world await news of whether Republicans’ decision to use the debt ceiling as a political weapon will lead to utter catastrophe, pundits and reporters alike are asking whether there is an out that would allow the Democrats to sidestep the Republicans’ attempted extortion.The question is: “out” from what, exactly? [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
President Biden’s poll numbers have declined over the last few months, and although there are many competing explanations for why that has happened, plenty of pundits (of all ideological leanings) are blaming his struggles in part on the recent increase in inflation. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
It is increasingly rare that I am able to write about current affairs with any sense of optimism or happiness. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
For the past four years, I have been writing with increasing levels of alarm about the fundamental threat to the rule of law that Donald Trump and the Republican Party represent. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Recently, there has been a torrent of revelations regarding the planning that led to the January 6 insurrection, Republican leaders’ reactions to that violent day, and the parallel nonviolent coup attempt that Donald Trump’s supporters in the White House and Congress tried to pull off.One of the issues that has come back into the conversation is the Trumpists’ plan to have former Vice President Mike Pence reject slates of Biden electors from a number of states for being improperly… [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
No matter whether the Republicans succeed in their current efforts to take health care away from non-rich people—partly to pay for tax cuts for rich people, and partly simply to allow everyone else to make “voluntary choices” to get sick and die—they will soon turn their attention squarely back to the tax system. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
The editorial board of The New York Times made a calculated splash last weekend by publishing a lead editorial under the headline: “America Has a Free Speech Problem. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
The news coverage of The New York Times’s blockbuster report on Donald Trump’s taxes has been extensive. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
In early 2015, a remarkable thing happened. [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]
23 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
There is no “First Lady of the Treasury Department,” but if there were, Louise Linton would currently occupy that role. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
In short order over the last two weeks, the latest debt ceiling crisis was defused, the date of the next crisis was all but set in stone, and the political class quickly moved on to “previously scheduled programming”—that is, to the many ongoing crises that the debt ceiling standoff had pushed off the front pages for more than a month.Hindsight bias may leave the impression that this result was foreordained, but it was not. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
The political commentariat is now busily pondering the results of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. [read post]
14 May 2023, 9:00 pm
Desperate times demand desperate measures. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 5:20 am
The threat of escalating political violence has hung over the United States since long before the January 6 insurrection. [read post]
13 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
The political discussion in the United States has become increasingly panicked, with people on the left and the right expressing concerns about a possible Trump presidency. [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]
23 Sep 2021, 6:16 am
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.) speaks, he sometimes tells the truth. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
Senator Bernie Sanders is unhappy about the media’s coverage of American politics, and he has a point. [read post]
