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Jake Anbinder
JakeAnbinder
At present the question of state capacity is orthogonal to left-right divides. On some limited matters (e.g. management of a national health insurance system) the left embraces it, on others
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I agree there are parallel universes in which it's possible to have a housing policy that is both slow-growth and redistributive. But if that's your pitch you need show how
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I think an underrated theory at this stage is that the Capitol Police deal with peaceful protest groups every day and as such are fundamentally are not used to the
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This was the argument Oscar Newman put forward in "Defensible Space" in the '70s, and it remains influential, but I don't think it's the consensus among urban historians anymorehttps://twitter.com/mtsw/status/134671187
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Nine months later I still cannot entirely wrap my head around the fact that getting a covid test is useful from a national statistical point of view but is much
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IIRC the reason Georgia has an unusually large number of counties is under the Jim Crow county-unit system whites had an incentive to subdivide majority-white areas into as many counties
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A project of common interest to liberals and leftists alike over the coming years should be to grapple with the problem of ~35-40% of Americans being ok with fascism. Not
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I would like a senate majority as much as the next guy but I think we are forgetting in a world where Trump's out of office and senate Rs no
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I think we probably need to get rid of probabilistic election forecasting, not because the models aren't sound in their own right but they are made to play a role
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i'm going to go out on a limb and say we don't need a charrette and a series of be-ins to figure out if it's a problem that drivers in
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i don't want to overstate regional differences on this subject, but it's hard to ignore how covid in this country is a disease of racialized poverty, and the states with
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