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
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...
