All Life Is Problem Solving

The administration’s roll-out of its austerity program for Americans fits a pattern we saw in health care reform, in the run-up to the Stimulus bill, in cap-and-trade, in financial reform, whatever. The Administration always operates from the top down, and then tries to mobilize support from the bottom. It decides what it wants to do […]

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When people introduce a new meme into politics, their standard operating procedure is often to just start talking about some label, say that it’s a problem, make various dire predictions, and then keep writing more and more screeds to try to get everyone else to think that it’s a problem. The meme or label used […]

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