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American aggression
The L.A.Times reports that Americans are responding to high gas prices by switching to smaller engines, but not necessarily to smaller cars...
Brand or tribe?
Posted by Unknown | 10:52 AM
Ezra Klein flags a great article by Republican pollster Josh Kahn. When pollsters ask voters whether they prefer the Democratic or Republi...
Trade vs. Free Trade
Posted by Unknown | 9:21 AM
If you're interested in the question of whether free trade is good for a country, but don't have an economics background, check out ...
Regional realignment?
Posted by Unknown | 10:33 AM
Matt Yglesias recently posted this election map from 1976 (note: Dems are red and GOP is blue, as was traditional before the late 90s). As ...
Liber(tarian)alism?
Posted by Unknown | 3:32 PM
Writing at TPMCafe, self-professed libertarian and Cato employee Brink Lindsey says that libertarians would be glad to ally with liberals i...
Two inequalities
Posted by Unknown | 9:51 AM
Ezra Klein argues that America's income inequality is the result of fat-cat profits, not differences in education or skills. Matt Ygles...
The hero effect
Posted by Unknown | 10:56 AM
Every time we see Harrison Ford almost get shot, or fall off a cliff, or run over by a tank, we think "Oh no, this time he really could...
No limits to growth
Posted by Unknown | 1:24 PM
I just read this article at Energybulletin.net about peak oil. The article tells the tragic story of how oil companies long tried to suppre...
The collapse of empires
Posted by Unknown | 9:36 AM
In the Washington Post, Kevin Phillips sees parallels between America's current situation and the collapse of the empires of Spain, Hol...
The Wages of Suck
Posted by Unknown | 10:02 PM
Republican pollster and consultant Frank Luntz thinks the Republicans are in for a drubbing akin to that received by the Dems in '94: ...
