Month: October 2011

I posted a thread earlier today for people to discuss the three free trade agreements that were debated and passed today. Very few people decided to express any opinion about them one way or the other. I find that interesting...

So…Booman wants to take issue with my assertion that the suburban white South Shore of Long Island was a “middle class/lower middle class hellhole” in the late ’50s/early ’60s, eh? Wuz he there? Of...

The House and Senate are debating and will vote on three free trade agreements today. The three agreements probably should not be treated the same. It might make sense to pass the South Korea agreement. The United Auto Workers,...

Here is something for Matt Yglesias to think about when he complains about having to sit through “a lot of nonsense from [a] pizza salesmen and Newt Gingrich” to get to the real meat, which is the choice between Rick...

Dana Milbank grew up in Merrick, New York, a Long Island hamlet that is still over 95% white and which has a median household income of $93,000. He went to a magnet high school, and then to Yale University, where he joined the...