The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan think tank devoted to bioethics and public policy, has started a new...
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
Mark says it all too well: Conservative wonks simply aren’t doing their jobs. What they are doing is...
James Joyner points us to this bit of union badness from Mickey Kaus: I knew they’d find a...
This is perhaps the worst advice column I’ve ever read, not that I read many. Nevertheless, this...
Will asks a few good questions about markets and economies of scale, to which Kevin Carson (among...
First, I have a post up at New Majority arguing that the Green Revolution needs free markets...
“If deflation really gets so out of hand that it plunges us into Depression-like circumstances, that’ll be...
If you missed it, Scott, Jamelle, and Reihan Salam did a podcast together. You can listen...
Freddie’s piece on Ross Douthat is top-notch. But more interesting than the critique of Douthat-as-columnist, is Freddie’s...
So Sullivan recommends that Mousavi gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Obama. I wonder, is the...
There’s a somewhat conflicting dynamic between competition and cost-pooling. The larger the pool, the cheaper the premium...
Now compare this to Singapore-style Health Savings Accounts. Let’s say you have 10% of your income deducted...
The push-back on my Baucuscare post basically broke down to this: why complain about subsidy amounts when...
This is pretty funny. And really, isn’t humor the best way to take on hypocrites and liars?
Reihan Salam points to this analysis of the shortcomings of the Baucus bill from Jim Capretta: A...
This is pretty neat. I think one of the coolest aspects of the green revolution will be...
I think I made too strong a case in my True/Slant post yesterday. I have this tendency...
[UPDATE – In true, tail-between-legs fashion, I have walked back significantly from this post here. I didn’t...
Matt Yglesias is in Denmark. I can sort of travel vicariously by blogging about Denmark as well,...
After just glancing through the just-released CBO report [pdf] on the Baucus bill, I can only say...