“To the extent that a public investment program, demands that its supporters show how they’ll pay for it show more about the critics’ bad economics than about the GND’s logic.” - Opi...
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Things Can Only Get Worse : > Seriously, how do you think the man who compared the C.I.A. to Nazis > will react when the Bureau of Labor Statistics first reports a > si...
“The only question now is whether the rot has gone so deep that nothing can stop America’s transformation into Trumpistan. One thing is for sure: It’s destructive as well as foolish to igno...
Useful Idiots Galore - The New York Times : > It might be more comfortable to pretend that things are O.K., that > American democracy isn’t on the edge. But that would b...
Vote as if It Matters - The New York Times : > But don’t vote for a minor-party candidate to make a statement. > Nobody cares.
Worthy of Our Contempt : > The willingness of some people who know better to support Donald > Trump is understandable; it’s also despicable.
> Reading this: https://t.co/mHX0v22iqb > > Couldn’t help thinking of this: https://t.co/aT42ybESkH > — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 27, > 2016
Truth and Trumpism : > Now I’m seeing suggestions that Trumpism is driven by concerns > about political gridlock. No, it isn’t. It isn’t even mainly > about “econo...
Planet on the Ballot : > …we’re only a few years from a world in which carbon-neutral > sources of energy could replace much of our consumption of fossil > fuels at�...
My Unicorn Problem : > As Matt O’Brien rightly said recently > , > even the incremental changes Hillary Clinton is proposing are very > unlikely to get through Congress�...
(via Paul Krugman on Twitter: “Ready for primary day. Also directly tweeting for the first time. So this is a test, also very silly. https://t.co/5JUeKEzQ9F” )
Potemkin Ideologies : > What used to happen was that the conservative movement could > basically serve the plutocracy, while mobilizing voters with > racial/gender anxiety,�...
Michigan’s Great Stink : > What we see in Flint is an all too typically American situation of > (literally) poisonous interaction between ideology and race, in > which ...
(via The Facts Have A Well-Known, You Know - The New York Times )
Hope From Paris : > I don’t think it’s naïve to suggest that what came out of > Paris gives us real reason to hope in an area where hope has been > all too sca...
Fearing Fear Itself : > The point is not to minimize the horror. It is, instead, to > emphasize that the biggest danger terrorism poses to our society > comes not from�...
Democrats, Republicans and Wall Street Tycoons : > By any normal standard, President Obama has been remarkably > restrained in his criticisms of Wall Street. But with great ...
Paul Ryan, Centrist Crush : > So Ryan’s current stature is really quite curious, and I’d > argue quite fragile. He has been a highly successful con artist, > pretendin...
A Heckuva Job : > And while Mr. Trump doesn’t exude presidential dignity, he’s > seeking the nomination of a party that once considered it a great > idea to put Geo...