Of church and state
Is American power on the wane?
Paul Kennedy literally wrote the book on the rise and fall of great powers. So when he writes that American power is on the wane , shouldn...
India: the part Bush got right
The Lost Decade
Many people are wondering if, as a result of the financial crisis, America will suffer a "Lost Decade" similar to that suffered by...
Macroeconomics has really, really, really dropped the ball
Look at me still talking when there's Science to do
The Economist sums up the weird anti-science philosophy of the Bush administration: One of the stranger beliefs of some politicians is that...
Economic Nationalism
Iraq will break up, but not in the really bad way
Matt Yglesias picks up on an article that shows something very interesting: Iraqi Arabs, both Sunni and Shiite, are rapidly starting to ide...
By request: tax cuts and stimulus
I basically agree with Krugman : Other things equal, public investment is a much better way to provide economic stimulus than tax cuts, for ...
Equivalence ambivalence
(Wow, a second Israel post!) Jonathan Chait lambasts Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein for drawing a "moral equivalence" between Israel...
what Krugman said
This article pretty much perfectly sums up what happened in politics in the last 8 years; why I hate the current incarnation of the Republ...
OK I'll write a post on Israel/Gaza
