Krugman: Health Care Realities
“At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to ‘keep your government hands … Continue reading →
View ArticleECONOMIC SCENE: Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
ECONOMIC SCENE: Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition: Passionate resistance to the expansion of the social safety net stems from the tension between two competing traditions in the American...
View ArticleThis Just In
This Just In: The NYTimes needs to keep doing these kinds of things. And the GOP is going to go down in racist flames in 2012. The Dems are being handed tons of free fodder for campaign ads: During a...
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Looking Beyond Election Day
Link to one of my favorite current thinkers, former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich. BAD. ASS. Continue reading →
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Don Cornelius, ‘Soul Train’ Creator, Is Dead
The great Don Cornelius is dead. James Brown, Aretha Franklin and so many others came at me through this show. Continue reading →
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Fathers Seek Advertising That Does Not Ridicule
Dad 2.0 Summit gets a profile in the Sunday New York Times. Continue reading →
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The Daddy Business Trip
I weigh in a tiny bit regarding Andy Hinds fantastic rebuttal to a cloying and ignorant article in the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading →
View Article‘Premium Shock’ and ‘Premium Joy’ Under the Affordable Care Act
It’s not entirely great news1, but this post from the NYTimes Economix blog (super grokky economics talk featuring a slide that will cause many graduated university students to suddenly have...
View ArticleLooking Beyond Election Day
Link to one of my favorite current thinkers, former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich. BAD. ASS.
View ArticleDon Cornelius, ‘Soul Train’ Creator, Is Dead
The great Don Cornelius is dead. James Brown, Aretha Franklin and so many others came at me through this show.
View ArticleEven Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
Fantastic reporting from the New York Times about the delusions suffered by conservatives in the United States. The piece, Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It, documents stories of...
View ArticleFathers Seek Advertising That Does Not Ridicule
Dad 2.0 Summit gets a profile in the Sunday New York Times.
View ArticleThe Daddy Business Trip
I weigh in a tiny bit regarding Andy Hinds fantastic rebuttal to a cloying and ignorant article in the Wall Street Journal.
View Article‘Premium Shock’ and ‘Premium Joy’ Under the Affordable Care Act
It’s not entirely great news ((Because the penalties for disobeying that mandate are so low, many young, healthy people may prefer to pay the penalty and remain uninsured until they fall ill, when they...
View ArticleLink: Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business – NYTimes.com
Great piece in the NYTimes last week about the Ellen Pao case against Kleiner Perkins. I’m dubious that it will change much in the bro culture (brolture?) of Silicon Valley. To several women in the...
View ArticleLink: Cuba on the Edge of Change
Gorgeous and haunting photo essay from the New York Times.
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