A Partisan Post, You Have Been Warned Last night I read a post by Brad DeLong that made me so mad I had trouble falling asleep. (Not at DeLong, mind you.)  There’s really nothing unusual in there — hysteria about the deficit, people who voted for the...

Classic Dean Baker in media-critic mode. Political Philosophers Meet at the White House This seems to be how the NYT views the meeting between President Obama and the Republican congressional leadership at the White House yesterday. It told readers...

Henry Blodget, via Jorn Barger: How To Make The World’s Easiest $1 Billion With all the banks paying back the TARP money, some folks are assuming that the great Wall Street bailout is finally coming to an end. But of course it isn’t! Taxpayers are...

Krugman. We all know this, I’m sure, but a reminder can’t hurt. 300,000 new jobs a month for five years, just to make up lost ground. The jobs deficit It was truly amazing the way last week’s employment report was hailed by many people as a sign that...

Well, good for him. This from Andrew Brown: Rick Warren repudiates Ugandan homophobia The most important evangelical preacher in America has denounced the Ugandan anti-gay law Who would have thought that Rick Warren, the most influential...