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I'm not sure how much of a future the Tea Party Republicans have; their approval ratings are incredibly low. It may be they will just s...

Prof. Tim Burke of Swarthmore draws really interesting comparisons between Barack Obama and James Buchanan, the US President just before Lin...

We've had an extraordinary sell-off in the global securities markets. Everyone is down. As I wrote over on Jared Bernstein's blog,...

It occurs to me that the apparently hedonistic US culture is no such thing. Most USers trust pain much more than joy. And that is why, tho...

As usual where Obama is one of the lead negotiators, the deal is worse than it need be. Paul Krugman has been calling this the Lesser De...

Google+'s "real" names policy is sexist , and an expression of privilege. The largest group of internet users who use pseudo...

The outlines of a deal are emerging in Congress. It looks very very bad. Talking Points Memo's Brian Beutler has a summary, article . ...