Note to Fix the Debt: Your Class Interest’s Showing
I guess the Fix the Debt folks are worried that their decades-long quest to roll back the New Deal and lower their own taxes is in peril, because they’re responding now to a Matt...
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Not Close
Kevin Drum provides a wonderful opportunity for me to launch my first volley in the struggle to write the first draft of history for the 2012 election: Liberals, you should rein in the triumphalism....
Actually, Re-Writing History Is a Bit More Complicated
So what can the 2000 election, and subsequent events, tell us about how we cast our votes for President in 2012? That’s the rhetorical question Kevin Drum asks as a way to set up...
What’s the Matter with New York?
Two months ago, which is, like, 49 months in blog-months, Kevin Drum suggested there was a very good essay to be written called “Why People Hate Liberals.” This is not that essay. But it reminded me...
Guest blogging for Kevin Drum
Leaguefest Las Vegas was a blast. Other than my wife coming down with a stomach bug; the headache I got Friday night that came on like a pre-hangover hangover; and the flu (or bad...
No, Americans are not “operationally liberal”
Responding to my demurrer to “the old saw that Americans are ideologically conservative but operationally liberal,” Yeggmen sticks up for the saw: what researchers have (repeatedly) done is get a bunch of people together...
Kevin Drum’s Jobs Plan
Kevin Drum wants a $1 trillion infrastructure investment to kick-start the economy. I think that even if you take the stimulus argument out of the picture – infrastructure investment is slow and not exactly...
Hawks to the left of me, hawks to the right…here I am…
Kevin Drum writes: But Will [Wilkinson]— along with Jon Stewart and all the others who think the media is being unfair toward Ron Paul — is missing the single biggest difference between Paul and...
not the Europe we had in mind
Matt Yglesias points us to this chart, which is depressing enough on its own: Then, both he and Kevin Drum, go on to point out that job losses are likely going to be long-term....
