Month: April 2014

The movie was good…but not as good as the book.” Well, Taylor Mali’s What Teachers Make: In Praise Of The Greatest Job In The World is good…but not as good as the poem.  (Yes, go watch the...

Sean Trende is correct that the Democrats could actually pick up Senate seats in the fall, although that outcome is unlikely. What’s more likely is that the Democrats will largely hold their own, surrendering between one...

The DCCC continues to out-raise the NRCC despite the fact that the Republicans have considerably more seats and that it’s easier for the GOP to collect large donations. This isn’t a bad development, but I’d...

There’s been a lot written and talked about regarding terrorism and violence in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings last year.  Here are a couple of under-discussed perspectives:     That violent...

French economist Thomas Piketty appears to have shocked some members of the professional economist community with his massive (700 page) tome Capital in the Twenty-First Century.  Piketty’s revelation based on solid...