James Surowiecki has a good article in The New Yorker , "Soak the Very, Very Rich" : Between 2002 and 2007, for instance, the bott...

Republican Senator Jim DeMint recently introduced an amendment to repeal the Estate Tax permanently . Not adjust it or improve it – repeal ...

Plutocracy and democracy don't mix. - Bill Moyers There’s class warfare, all right - but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making w...

Via Tristero , here's a great letter in response to The New Yorker 's portrait of Paul Krugman . The letter describes the differen...

"Caligula had to appoint that horse. Here they are nominated by acclamation." - Roy Edroso (This post was originally part of ...

If conservatism at its best involves sticking with policies that have proved effective, at its worst it entails sticking with policies that ...