Matthew Yglesias
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Matthew Yglesia's blog is prominent in the liberal blogosophere. It is different from most political blogs in that his academic training in philosophy is often reflected in the density and abstruseness of his writing. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Barack Obama’s Dangerous Embrace Of Economic Fatalism
(Blog Post) Even as the Obama administration continues to defend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from its critics, the White House appears to have sincerely pivoted away from ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Right Bailing The Left Out On Spending
(Blog Post) You have a government set to steadily increase spending on autopilot as a result of demographic change and rising health care costs. And you have a Democratic President urging ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Incapacitated State
(Blog Post) However unimpressed you may be by the wisdom of the United States Congress, it’s very difficult for me to think up complicated issues where pushing the issue down to ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Slippery Slope Of Unilateralism
(Blog Post) I had an interesting back and forth several years ago with Anne-Marie Slaughter, then a professor at Princeton, later policy planning director at the State Department, and now ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Dual Oil Threats
(Blog Post) When people talk about the risk posed to the economy by oil price spikes it’s worth keeping in mind the fact that there are really two separate threats here.Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Next Boom
(Blog Post) Even people who are eager to move to denser urban neighborhoods are almost shockingly hostile to the idea of anything in the existing neighborhood being redeveloped in a ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Iconography of the Pledge
(Blog Post) The visual iconography of the Pledge to America is fascinating. It’s full of photos of what I think are Republican members of Congress meeting with real Americans to better ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic of American Education-Related Social Stratification
(Blog Post) Peter Beinart, like all good heterodox liberals, thinks we should curb race-based affirmative action in college admissions in favor of something more focused on class. I’m ...Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Honor of McCain
() McCain has been a consistent apostle of the Bill Kristol school of foreign policy -- all problems should be solved through force, and all problems with the use of force should ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
He Said What Now?
() Charles Krauthammer offers up his latest entry in his unending campaign for the title of America's Worst Journalist: "The news from Anbar is the most promising. Only last ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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