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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]
27 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
The 2014 American college football season will kick off this weekend. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 1:45 am
Neil H. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
Within the last few weeks, the world of college sports has been rocked by two major developments, one internal and one external. [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]
21 Jul 2014, 2:00 am
More reviews of Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014): Neil H. [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]
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]
10 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
Last week here on Verdict, in “Poor, Rich, and Very Little Movement in Between: Part One of a Two-Part Series on Income Mobility and Inequality,” I discussed one of the more persistent and dishonest responses by conservatives to the problem of poverty and inequality. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
There has recently been an outpouring of discussion about economic inequality, especially in response to the surprising popularity of Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. [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]
7 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Because they have “proven much more successful at resisting tax increases in the age of Obama than [h]ave the true plutocrats above them. [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]
9 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
To the surprise of many people, and to the great consternation of Republicans, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or the dreaded “Obamacare”) failed to fail. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
The Enlightenment led to the development of the essential institutions of modern society. [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]
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]
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]
5 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm
The New Buchanan-Dorf Analysis: Congress Has Already Guaranteed That the President Will Violate the Debt Ceiling, Even if He Tries Not to Do So Despite our frustration in not seeing the President or his allies even acknowledge the trilemma, or our analysis of the President’s proper response to it, Professor Dorf and I have assumed until now that the President really would be making a choice among three different ways to violate the Constitution. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
For over a generation, the hope of expanding economic opportunity has been fading for the vast majority of Americans. [read post]
