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The pending debt ceiling deal is shaping up as quite a Rorschach test. On the left, Michael Cohen crows that the GOP caved, while Noam Sche...

Reports that Biden, taking up the fiscal cliff baton, is on the point of giving away the store have sparked deep depression in the left-sid...

President Obama invested a large sum of political capital in his interview with David Gregory on Meet the Press this morning. All publish...

Greg Sargent is salivating at the prospect of Obama daring the Senate GOP to veto a stripped-down fiscal cliff bill that would raise margin...

Serving our Jersey suburb is a pest control company (maybe many) that will catch unwanted rodents (woodchucks, raccoons) in have-a-heart tra...

I rarely react to news stories with unfiltered rage. Maybe it's a lack of moral imagination or empathy on my part, since outrages are re...

Tyler Cowen would have Republicans shake up the tax debate by proposing a tiny across-the-board income tax hike in addition to the moderate...

Thanks to the Lincoln movie and Ta-Nehisi Coates, I've been reading This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James M. Mac...

John Boehner used some revealing language in his press conference today to defend the Plan B that his caucus refused to support yesterday. ...

I was going to suggest a couple of potentially good things about chained-CPI, a slower and allegedly more accurate measure of inflation than...

The good folks at WonkBlog have been castigating the proposed move to a "chained-CPI" to slow the rate of Social Security benefit ...

Re that Nicholas Kristof column alleging skewed incentives in the children's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program: in a prior pos...

Waiting for Obama to speak tonight, I thought, as I'm sure many did, that he could not simply give another tender and eloquent consolati...

They say that three times is a trend, so I will have to make do with two thirds of a trend regarding Nicholas Kristof's use of social sc...

Introducing xpostfactoid's first guest post! -- by son Jonah. ---- The first book I grew to love was A.A. Milne’s The World of Poo...

Jonathan Bernstein jumped in early yesterday with a characteristic caution regarding Susan Rice's withdrawal of herself from considera...

A burst of attention in its 40th anniversary year to Free to Be You and Me , Marlo Thomas' children's record devoted to shaking up s...

Eduardo Porter suggests that raising new tax revenue by cutting loopholes opens up a semantic loophole: Though the offer to raise money b...

Henry Aaron of Brookings, one of the nation's top healthcare economists, has a rather odd perspective on the current brewing battle ov...

"Epistemic closure" is by now a tired, not say clunky, phrase. But how else do describe this dead-end thinking, relayed in today...