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A very good article. Many liberals are in denial about this; they've been conditioned by experience to see the US falling short, which we often do. But not this time,

The GOP response to Biden's speech decried "the biggest job-killing tax hikes in a generation," presumably a ref to the 1993 Clinton tax hike, after which we ... added 23

Lots of stories like this over the past couple of days. Easy and reasonable to mock them: "People who make a lot of money from capital gains say taxing capital

So pretty much the *only* issues Republicans are worked up about in this Pew survey are illegal immigration and the deficit (Pew didn't ask about the menace of BLM and

One thing I haven't seen pointed out much as the vaccination campaign moves forward is that this is a rare case in which individual decisions about whether to act responsibly

In the past few days I've been noticing a lot of what I think of as delusional whataboutism. It runs like this: "OK, maybe police are killing an innocent Black

Can I say how weird it is to see the US reemerging as a role model for policy? Anyway, Simon Wren-Lewis explains why Biden-style aggressive stimulus is the right way

So, will this be Inflation Freakout Week? Maybe, or maybe it will wait a month or two. But soon we'll be seeing some big headline price rises — and it

And now for something almost completely different: Max Roser has a beautiful post about the Black Death. And no, that's not a contradiction 1/https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap Roser points out and documents somethi

I missed this, from Adam Posen, about how we should stop thinking of Japan as a cautionary tale and learn lessons from its successes. Completely agree 1/https://www.ft.com/content/f478f51f-2900-4558-bf0f-d224453e88bf Back in the

Next week is going to be horrible, for multiple reasons. One reason I haven't seen mentioned much in the media has come up a lot in my discussions with Wall

Famous last words, but it does now look as if only blatant theft — which is possible! — can save Trump. But what will be the state of the nation