Posted by Unknown | 11:15 AM
Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times columnist, is visiting my hometown, College Station. While he's there, he's thinking long and ha...
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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
Posted by Unknown | 10:02 AM
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
Posted by Unknown | 6:56 AM
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?
Posted by Unknown | 7:34 AM
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
Posted by Unknown | 7:22 AM
Matt Yglesias points out that the Southwest, which some commentators still inexplicably refer to as a Republican bastion, is now pretty rel...
Who won the bloody war?
Posted by Unknown | 10:24 AM
Did we win the Iraq war? By 19th century standards, sure - we kicked a lot of people's asses and imposed our political will on another c...
How the West was lost (by the Republicans)
Posted by Unknown | 6:07 PM
Take a look at this electoral map from 1976: You can see that the Republican base was much different than it is today. Of course, the South ...
Whose fault was the financial crisis?
Posted by Unknown | 8:13 PM
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
Posted by Unknown | 6:52 AM
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
Posted by Unknown | 6:46 AM
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
Posted by Unknown | 9:28 AM
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
Posted by Unknown | 6:26 AM
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
Posted by Unknown | 8:28 PM
Conservatives, to be perfectly frank: y'all got nuthin'. By which I mean, you have no big ideas about how to change America for th...
More Roosevelt
Posted by Unknown | 8:42 AM
The man didn't always do the right thing, and he didn't always do the smart thing,but he certainly had a way with words: "[R]ru...
American-Americans?
Posted by Unknown | 10:54 PM
Here is a map of which counties voted more Republican this year than in 2004 (in red): And here is a map showing the largest self-reported a...
And then, there it was.
Posted by Unknown | 9:19 PM
I remember that moment in the year 2000 when CNN took back its call of Florida for Al Gore. I felt like we were entering some kind of nation...
America is a liberal nation
Posted by Unknown | 5:10 AM
On the eve of the election of the most liberal president in half a century, political writers continue to insist that America is a center-ri...
Noahpinion on hold
Posted by Unknown | 4:11 PM
Due to my health problems, I won't be posting for a while... I hope Obama wins tomorrow.