The Stopped Clock

Once you wade past the right-wing talking points and demagoguery, which means roughly the first 2/3 of his column, Michael Gerson has some ...

Jonathan Adler appears to have come to recognize that despite the two years of hand-wringing, bell-ringing, and "The End is Nigh"...

Paul Paul Krugman argues , The truth is that predictions of am imminent fiscal crisis made no sense, and would have been considered irrespo...

It occurs to me that in talking about a David Brooks column I had not originally intended to talk about , I failed to mention the passage t...

At least, that's what people say. And it's a reasonable reaction, given that he hasn't disclosed an actual policy for boosting ...

According to this infographic , based upon the relatively modest percentage of the described websites I use, I am a lowly-highly politicall...

I was tempted to dissent David Brooks' recent piece on how boys are faring in school, his comparison of an unruly boy, chained down by ...

For reasons I can't quite fathom, Thomas Ricks wrote an essay arguing for a national service requirement for all young adults, and the...

What a socialist .... "Prosperity can be a tool in our hands -- used to build and better our country. Or it can be a drug in our syst...

Michael Gerson is in full-scale stenographer mode today, serving up one right-wing talking point after another. Sometimes you have to wond...

Robert Samuelson has written an interesting editorial in which he all-but-states that President Obama was correct to attempt massive stimul...

Randy Barnett, inventor of the "activity/inactivity" distinction takes us back to the days before the Supreme Court decided the A...

I'm pretty sure I've commented on this before, but (surprise) nobody was paying attention. Even if you believe that voter ID laws a...

Consumer expectations like this lead me to believe that, should Apple produce a 7" (or so) tablet computer, it will be sold as an iPo...

Yes, we get it. A mini iPad could disrupt the 7" tablet market. An Amazon phone could disrupt the smartphone market. Or.... they may n...

Bill Kristol is complaining that Mitt Romney isn't sharing enough policy details: Is it too much to ask Mitt Romney to get off autopil...

Fareed Zakaria writes , Many liberals believe that the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — is unpopular only because most Americans don’t und...

Sometimes you wish that candidates would just keep their wives out of things, lest they end up having to pretend to like to bake cookies 1 ...

Romney, as you would expect from his history, is a personification of the incoherent Republican attack on the ACA mandate and Justice Rober...