Appalachia rising
Break it up!
The southern third of Somalia is a wasteland fought over by rival gangs of tribalist Islamists. The middle third, Puntland, is the base for...
Better government
This is exactly the kind of thing we need . For decades we debated "bigger government" versus "smaller government." That...
Two to tango
How did China help inflate the massive U.S. housing bubble ? They lent our country cheap money, so that we would use that money to buy their...
Yay public goods, yay New Urbanism
As someone who has been banging the "public goods" drum for a couple years now, it warms my heart to see big-time bloggers like Yg...
About that yuan...
Brad DeLong claims to be mystified as to why the recession is hitting American manufacturing especially hard: This is news to me. I had bee...
The poor, oppressed supermajority
Richard Cohen comes out swinging against Rick Warren: He went on to say, "We can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on...
On American royalty
I don't have anything against Caroline Kennedy. She's an educated woman and has done fine work in the field of education reform, a...
Obamanejad kowtows before the new American Ayatollah
OK, so the title of this post is a bit of an exaggeration. But I'm still really pissed that Obama is having Rick Warren deliver the invo...
Too much or not enough?
Matt Yglesias has been writing a lot about unions lately, all of it positive. Today he says : It seems that Senator Blance Lincoln (D-AR) th...
And the drain that swallows it
Solution: Get your own voters
Nate Silver has a pretty awesome piece up about how Obama won the West. Essentially, he just went out and registered an army of new voters...
In the meantime....
While Noah recuperates, I'll be taking over this blog in a brilliant coup for my own diabolical purposes filling in with Chris to make ...
Short takes
I'm still hoping Ry and Chris will soon take over blogging so I can have a couple months to sit on the couch and go "blaaaarghhh,...
Health problems
Noahpinion will be on hiatus for a while, due to my health problems...sorry! Check back every week or so to see if I've returned to the ...
Parting shot at the center-right
Can you say "belated Slate" ten times fast? Rather belatedly, Slate has come out with a good article that pretty much takes apart...
One-handed economists
Ever since I learned even a little bit about economics, I've been convinced that there was a big stinking dead body in the closet of con...
The meaning of decline
Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times columnist, is visiting my hometown, College Station. While he's there, he's thinking long and ha...
"Conservative economics" goes the way of the giant ground sloth
Krugman points out something about conservative economic policy recommendations. What do you when the economy is good? Cut taxes. When the ...
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
Here's more evidence that weak regulation played a huge role in the financial collapse. And that won't be the last such article. Bu...
The era of conservative dominance?
A lot of people call 1968-2006 the " era of conservative dominance " in American politics. But was it? Just looking at presidentia...
The blue waxes
Who won the bloody war?
Diversity
Hiatus
Noahpinion has been out for a few days,and will be out for a few more. In the meantime, please read: How the Republican Party became the ...
How the West was lost (by the Republicans)
Whose fault was the financial crisis?
I've always maintained that China, which lent the U.S. a ton of money way too cheaply, was a big culprit in the mega debt crisis that ju...
The Scary New World
The Economist sounds a note of caution about Barack Obama's foreign policy. I think it's right to do so. Obama's foreign policy...
Read Fareed
Fareed Zakaria is a decent columnist, sometimes a little behind the curve, but good at summing up the big trends in ideas and politics. Whic...
End of an era
As of Inauguration Day, 2009, Barack Obama will arguably be the most powerful human being on the planet (though you could make a case for Hu...
Liberalism is Teh Awesome
John Judis notes that Americans are turning liberal : If you compare Americans' attitudes from the 1970s and '80s with attitudes tod...
Conservatives have to be conservative again
More Roosevelt
American-Americans?
No fear
