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I used to be a big proponent of “asymmetrical polarization” — the idea that Republicans have gone right faster than Democrats have gone left — and I still see people
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If you think, as the CBO does, that our aim should be to restore the 2017 labor market then $1.9 trillion really does look too big.But if you want to
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A child allowance would rescue millions of vulnerable kids from poverty, but @swinshi says it’s bad anyway because it reduces work incentives.So I asked him if he could give me
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Here's the thing about this. Summers' economic analysis is not particularly original here -- Biden's request fills more than 100 percent of the output gap. That's exactly what Biden's team
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Let's talk about an underrated issue: MASK QUALITY.When they first started encouraging people to wear masks, there was widespread concern about PPE shortages so the guidance was that normal people
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My reporting is Dems long assumed they'd have to do Covid as a reconciliation measure — GOP sincerely, albeit wrongly, simply does not want to spend huge sums of money on
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Lots of haters on this post but I kind of like it and actually wish Greenwald would more frequently clarify that he’s a single-issue guy for whom Trump’s slightly-greater-than-Obama tensions
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I have no idea what the real story is with this reporter seemingly fired by the NYTimes for saying some aspect of the Biden inagural gave her chills. But lots
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Something that gets easily forgotten is the 60 vote senate has never really been a thing. As recently as the start of my career in 2003, a major Medicare reform
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Inflation truthers are wrong — what’s true is that relative price shifts (not inflation!) have gone in a direction that’s bad for society, making entertainment cheaper but child-rearing much more
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This all seems good.It also seems like an occasion for some thoughts on the Experts Discourse that happened around this a few weeks ago — I never thought “the experts”
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It's a small but telling thing as you can see so many "responsible" GOP electeds today describing the assault on the Capitol as a kind of crime agains the police,
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