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...
