James Dobson: WWJF?
By Kay Steiger - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pmThis is a pretty funny video making fun of the fact that Focus on the Family is laying off 200 employees after sinking $500,000 into…
Posts Tagged ‘economy’
I Don’t Really Care if Auto CEOs Fly in Private Jets
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThere’s been a lot of controversy over the Big 3 automobile companies’ CEOs flying to Washington on private jets and then asking for huge sums…
The College (Soon-to-be) Dropouts
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pmVia Jason Zengerle, Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe has a long, soul-crushingly dark account of what a 21st century depression would (will?) look like.…
Strangled By Corn
By Jesse Singal - Nov 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pmEffect Measure has an interesting post highlighting a study that used stable isotope analysis (I totally know what this means but, um, don’t want to…
Listening to Those Who Weren’t Cheering Last Week
By Jesse Singal - Nov 12th, 2008 at 1:13 pmThis Race Wire piece on Barack Obama’s victory is worth a read. I disagree with much of it and think there are parts that simply…
Summers v. Geithner
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pmYou really owe it to yourself to read Noam Scheiber’s piece in The New Republic about Larry Summers and Federal Reserve Bank of New York…
Wonk Convergence
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pmOne of the more pernicious memes as the election drew to a close was that President Obama will not be able to enact a progressive…
Studs Terkel on Health Care
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 amAs a proud Chicagoan and a Hyde Parker to boot I feel I should say something about Studs Terkel’s passing. To be honest I’m not…
Governors Want Painless College Budget Cuts
By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 31st, 2008 at 12:10 pmThe National Governors Association (NGA) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings yesterday asking that no state be held accountable under new laws…
Expensive Colleges Feel the Economic Crisis, Too
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pmYou’d think with a hefty tuition of almost $50,000 a year per student the most expensive colleges in the country would be comfortably insulated from…
Elizabeth Edwards on Health Care
By Kay Steiger - Oct 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pmLast night Campus Progress, our sister organization, sponsored a wonkarific discussion on health care between Ezra Klein and Elizabeth Edwards. The full video can be…
The Second Coming of The Christian Science Monitor
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pmI wouldn’t say that I’m completely surprised, but I am a little stunned to hear that the Christian Science Monitor is cutting back from its…
Mitchell Rofsky’s Apartment Smells of Upper Middle-Class Mahogany
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pmIt’s kind of disappointing when the former head of a self-described “socially responsible mutual fund” reveals that he’s painfully out of touch with real Americans’…
If You Attack “Redistribution,” It Will Come Back to Haunt You
By Jesse Singal - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pmEarlier this week Ross Douthat had some smart thoughts on conservatism and wealth redistribution:
Another thing on this subject - is opposition to wealth-spreading in…
The Corner Outdoes Itself
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 21st, 2008 at 3:49 pmI just don’t know what to say about The Corner anymore. Unless the National Review has finally resorted to solely employing right-wing militia members camped…
