Posted by Unknown | 6:33 PM

The murder of abortion doctor George Tiller is the first high-profile incident of domestic right-wing terrorism in a long time. Why now? Wa...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:23 PM

From an email conversation of mine, regarding the controversy over Israeli settlement building : My reading of it is that Israel knows it wi...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:15 AM

Sonia Sotomayor, by all accounts, did once say: “ I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more ofte...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:25 PM

The Economist has a new article in which it cautions Obama and the Democrats not to go too far in restraining American business. The failur...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:18 AM

Via Ry, an insight into why Americans aren't fond of trains: Do trains carry crime? Some residents of Gloucester County worry that a p...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:07 AM

Mary C. Curtis seems to think that the Obama-Spock comparisons making the internet rounds have something to do with the fact that Obama and...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:35 AM

Via Krugman , Digby delivers a broadside against conservative fiscal priorities: Right now the social security trust fund isn't going t...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:16 PM

Yglesias : Steve Clemons reports that economic stimulus is under way in second-tier Chinese cities hit hard by the economic downturn: And ...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:54 AM

Via Yglesias , Lane Kenworthy makes a good point - summer vacation increases educational inequality . The reason is that during summer, kids...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:02 AM

There are growing reports of fissures in the U.S. business community over the issue of carbon pricing. For many years, U.S. businesses - ma...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:04 PM

Yglesias dishes up some good ones on his 28th: 1. Yglesias is right that roads don't pay for themselves . Actually, though Yglesias does...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:46 PM

Our government is finally pressing ahead with one of the biggest no-brainer policies resisted by the Bushies - higher mpg standards for car...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:09 AM

Yglesias looks at a graph that shows that countries that spend more on social services (health, education, welfare) tend to have lower inco...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:59 AM

Daniel Larison ventures to tell us "who lost conservatism": As the cliché goes, there are three main factions in the conservative ...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:58 AM

Very, very interesting news out of Utah: The most Republican state in the nation is drifting to the left. In the last few months, Gov. Jon...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:05 AM

Richard Posner, a conservative economist/judge, says that conservatism is an intellectually dead movement . Posner is a big deal (in intelle...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:31 AM

(The Thor's Helmet Nebula, NGC 2359) Via Ry, Matt Taibbi delivers a hilarious takedown of those tasked with intellectually defending re...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:01 AM

The Treasury Dept.'s "stress tests" for banks have been much derided in the press . The consensus is that the stress tests mak...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:37 AM

Matt Yglesias: It seems to me that when you look at the things that people buy with their private funds, that the United States is the great...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:06 AM

Of all the great changes America has undergone in its history, the urbanization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was certainly one ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:43 PM

Actually, this post is about corporate taxation. You may have heard of Obama's drive to crack down on tax havens . There's a lot of ...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:14 AM

Matt Yglesias flags a poll showing increased support for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and has this to say : That’s interesting. Conventi...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:15 PM

...and windbag liberals like Brad DeLong are just being cranks for saying otherwise : The Republicans put Jefferson Beauregard Sessions ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:05 AM

Many people I know - liberals especially - regard Karl Rove as an evil genius or dark wizard. Now that Bush's tenure looks increasingly ...

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