I sometimes feel that I spend too much time pointing out all the ways in which various people are wrong, and even then, the vast quantity of wrongness in the public discourse overwhelms my capacity to process it. In that spirit, I'm launching an occasional feature called "Today In Wrong." In it, I'm sweeping up some of the wrongnesses that ...
Recently departed budget director Peter Orszag says that Democrats should make a deal with Republicans to extend all the Bush tax cuts for two years in return for canceling them all out after two years:
Ideally only the middle-class tax cuts would be continued for now.Getting a deal in Congress, though, may require keeping the high-incometax cuts, too. And that...
Dave Weigel wants to know which hack pundit will draw a parallel between Adrian Fenty's (predicted) loss in the Washington, D.C. mayoral primary and the political travails of President Obama:
My question: Who'll be the first pundit to discuss Fenty's defeat as a sign of things to come for Barack Obama? Fenty endorsed Obamain 2008, and the two men have been ...
Harold Pollack breaks down conventional wisdom about the unemployed: "People seeking work aren't dogs fighting over bones. The real insult is that we act as though they are." These are words worth keeping in mind as you read Timothy Noah's article on the return of Gilded Age-scale income inequality. You know American exceptionalism is humming along when we...
Apparently, racial discrimination doesn't exist for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals:
Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appeals court in Atlanta said there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adult black man “boy.”
“The usages were conversational,”...
