Posted by Unknown | 2:55 PM

Sweden's finance minister says the U.S. should "confront the financial industry's political power and nationalize our banks . L...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:26 AM

Brad DeLong and Matt Yglesias take Byron York to task for saying this : On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:16 AM

(I apologize for the fact that this picture is not nearly as cute as the one in the previous post.) Peter Orszag, director of the Congressio...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:27 PM

(I was going to put a picture of Arlen Specter here, but you can't deny this is much cuter.) Arlen Specter speculation has been requeste...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:14 AM

Seems like it's been forever since I've done a China-bashing post. Not much new to say, but here's some links: 1) A look at on...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:52 PM

There is a lot of hand-wringing about Pakistan but not a lot of ideas about what to do. It's become fashionable to write "Pakistan ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:14 AM

Among the cases made for lower taxes is the idea that taxes discourage hard work. But if very rich people make more than somewhat-wealthy pe...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:44 AM

More news about how the Republican party is responding to its big losses by thumping the same old tubs : Rank-and-file Republicans remain, b...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:05 AM

I don't want to crap too much on the emerging neo-isolationist foreign policy consensus, because it's not obviously wrong. Matt Ygle...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:03 PM

Nate Silver wonders if the libertarian movement has taken over the GOP: But of the roughly four different pathways the Republicans could ta...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:24 AM

Yglesias comments on how the Republicans just love to double down when they fail : After losing ground in 2006, you might have expected Repu...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:45 AM

If I had only one sentence to say what makes me so mad about the modern American conservative movement, that sentence would be: American con...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:17 PM

About five years ago, as my time in the navy was drawing to a close, I spent a lot of time surfing the emerging liberal blogosphere. I star...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:51 AM

Researcher Colin Campbell on peak oil: [T]he population only doubled over the first 17 centuries of the last millennium. But then came coal ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:00 AM

Matt Yglesias takes on Tom DeLay's assertion that Texas is a "wealthy state" because Texans "work hard", and has thi...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:00 PM

When conservatives tell me that the conservative movement isn't about race, I am reminded of those "moderate Muslims" who went...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:41 AM

Commenter Luke...um, that is, the mysterious " l "...has a great idea: each taxpayer should have access to an easy-to-read web app...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:44 AM

The Republican-organized anti-tax "tea party" demonstrations have been much maligned. It has been pointed out that they are funde...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:56 PM

A Research 2000 poll finds that Americans of all races, ages, genders, and political affiliations have favorable opinions of San Francisco,...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:40 PM

The modern-day robber barons of the finance world are under populist attack. The Economist notes two lines of criticism : 1) financiers are...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:10 PM

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unali...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:29 AM

Ryan Avent and Matt Yglesias make a good point : As soon as the world recovers from its current slump, high oil prices will be right back, b...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:36 PM

Matt Yglesias and I are on the exact same wavelength when it comes to race in America : I read Ta-Nehisi Coates casually refer to Yeah Yeah...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:31 PM

This kind of thing is really getting sad. The breakdown of the Grand Old Party since Obama won has been a source of endless amusement, b...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:38 AM

Chris asks me, in re: my and Noah's defense spending foofarah : "..how much of a different story do you think a land war would ...

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