Here’s some good lively morning angst, with Fuel performing “Jesus Or a Gun” on Australian TV in 2000.
Barack Obama’s biggest second-term challenge isn’t guns or immigration. It’s saving his biggest first-term achievements, like the Dodd-Frank law, from being dismembered by lobbyists and conservative jurists in the shadowy, Byzantine “rule-making” process.
Conservatives love to apply “cost-benefit analysis” to government programs—except in health care. In fact, working with drug companies and warning of “death panels,” they slipped language into Obamacare banning cost-effectiveness research. Here’s how that happened, and why it can’t stand.
Preventing mass killings like the one in Newtown may be impossible. But there’s plenty we can do to reduce violence by the mentally ill in general. And the tools are right there in Obamacare.
How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds. May/June/July 2008
As president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe triumphed over a fierce narco-insurgency. Then the U.S. helped to export his strategy to Mexico and throughout Latin America. Here’s why it’s not working. January/February 2012
Disenfranchisement of former felons was the real crime in Florida. January/February 2001
Against Filibuster Sentimentality
It will always be a hijacking of the democratic process. By Ed Kilgore 03/09/2013
Slaves of Defunct Economists
Why politicians pursue austerity policies that never work. By Henry Farrell 03/07/2013
Chávez’s Magical Realism
How the Comandante may get the last laugh, even from the grave. By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan 03/06/2013
The Republican Case for Waste in Health Care
Why Obamacare forbids cost-effectiveness research. By Phillip Longman 03/05/2013
He Who Makes the Rules
How big reforms get pecked to death by lobbyists and conservative judges. By Haley Sweetland Edwards 03/04/2013
Oil Sands Development Not Only a Climate Disaster
It’s also poisoning the Canadian countryside. By Rhiannon Kirkland 03/03/2013
15 Budget Ideas Better Than the Sequester
Not included: hitting yourself in the face with a cricket bat. By Ezra Klein 03/01/2013
Why Congress Isn’t Disarming the Sequester
The people on the Hill won’t feel the pain. By Sarah Binder 02/28/2013
It’s the Prices, Stupid
Digesting Steve Brill’s massive piece about why health care is so expensive. By Aaron Carroll 02/27/2013
The Hagel Filibuster Was a Filibuster
This isn’t that hard, people. By Jonathan Bernstein 02/26/2013
The Return of the Transvaginal Ultrasound
Republicans just can’t seem to help themselves. By Kathleen Geier 02/25/2013
Simpson-Bowles 2.0 Trades Credibility for Influence
People who would rather be thought “serious” than accomplish anything. By Ezra Klein 02/24/2013
The Wage-Earner’s Case for the Minimum Wage
In favor of the dignity of work. By Michael Kinsley 02/22/2013
Florida College Names Stadium After Prison Company
Might think twice before going to one of these games. By Daniel Luzer 02/22/2013
No One Really Reads Academic Papers
According to this one paper we skimmed, anyway. By Daniel Luzer 02/20/2013
Medicare’s Administrative Costs, Explained
Turns out privatizing Medicare leads to skyrocketing costs. By Austin Frakt 02/19/2013
What Would You Give Up to Get a Climate Bill?
Reporting from yesterday’s climate protest in Washington. By Sam Knight 02/19/2013
‘They Deserve a Vote’ Can Be More Than Rhetoric
Where rhetoric meets political reality. By Jonathan Alter 02/18/2013
Clint Eastwood and Barney Frank Attack the Pentagon
Suddenly cutting military spending is okay. By Ezra Klein 02/15/2013
More College Grads Equals Faster Economic Growth
Keep America educated, and everyone benefits. By Peter Orszag 02/14/2013
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