Government & Politics
Tactical coverage of politics, usually from inside the Beltway.
- Obama and TV News Tevi Troy 05/15/2012
- The Obama White House is both very aware and very thin-skinned about what reporters, and particularly TV reporters, say about it.
- Why Young Voters Won’t Tip the Gay Marriage Debate Anytime Soon Lazar Berman and Daniel Berman 05/14/2012
- The electorate may well be evolving, but it’s at a far more glacial pace than is being widely credited.
- The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think Eric Kaufmann 05/08/2012
- Population change is reversing secularism and shifting the center of gravity of entire societies in a conservative religious direction.
- Europe’s Future on the Ballot Desmond Lachman 05/01/2012
- Depending on what happens this weekend, Europe should start bracing itself for a renewed intensification of its sovereign debt crisis.
- The Tribal Mind: Moral Reasoning and Public Discourse Arnold Kling 04/26/2012
- If we want to get along better and resolve differences more easily, it will take conscious effort to overcome tribal behavioral instincts.
- More Than Good Enough for Government Work Ivan Osorio 04/25/2012
- To reform public pensions, policymakers must tackle their structural problems.
- Can Government Be Limited? James V. DeLong 04/20/2012
- Under current law, it is difficult for the Supreme Court to uphold the healthcare mandate so as to prevent free riding while also preventing its use to extract subsidies. Therein lies the rub.
- Understanding Tax Fairness (and Why the Buffett Rule Is a Distraction) Alex Brill 04/17/2012
- While the number of tax returns filed jumped from 107 million in 1987 to 140 million in 2009, the number of taxable returns actually fell from 87 million to 82 million.
- Liberals or Conservatives: Who’s Really Close-Minded? Andrew G. Biggs 04/12/2012
- Conservatives understand their ideological opposite numbers far better than do liberals.
- Rethinking America’s Energy Policy Rep. Fred Upton 04/10/2012
- It is an exciting time for American energy, but only if American energy policy spurs innovations rather than stifling them.