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Giving The President’s Process Its Due

Jan 12, 2012, 9:11 AM

Considering his background as a self-described constitutional law professor (he was technically a “senior lecturer,” not a tenured professor), President Obama... Read »

FDR’s Second Bill of Rights: An Unrealized Dream

Jan 12, 2012, 8:30 AM 1

Sixty-eight years ago today, Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid out what he referred to as a “Second Bill of Rights” in his State of the Union address to... Read »

The Youthful Magic of Ron Paul

Jan 12, 2012, 7:57 AM 6

South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint, the darling of the Tea Party wing nuts of the GOP, is urging Republican candidates to listen to Ron Paul. “One of... Read »

Obama Administration Makes Crucial Pivot on Trade and Jobs

Jan 12, 2012, 7:38 AM 2

Moving into the 2012 election season, the Obama Administration is making a critical  pivot in its political and economic narrative on trade and jobs. During his... Read »

What Did Huntsman Accomplish?

Jan 11, 2012, 9:00 AM

The just-concluded New Hampshire primary brought former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to the high-water mark of his presidential campaign. Unfortunately for Huntsman, the... Read »

The Love Trapezoid

Jan 11, 2012, 5:12 AM

If you can take your eyes off the primary election coverage, watch Geithner. The US is engaged in a love trapezoid. The four corners are Beijing, Teheran, Tokyo,... Read »

The Bain of Capitalism

Jan 10, 2012, 2:08 PM

It’s one thing to criticize Mitt Romney for being a businessman with the wrong values. It’s quite another to accuse him and his former company, Bain Capital,... Read »

The Most Important Trend for the 2012 Election

Jan 10, 2012, 12:58 PM

From Gallup: As we’ve noted on the blog many, many times, the most important predictor of presidential election outcomes is the trend in key economic indicators... Read »

The Inevitability of Mitt Romney

Jan 10, 2012, 10:10 AM

Alex Lundry and I have a new post at Model Politics that repeats a version of our earlier experiment.  We again randomly assigned survey respondents to see information... Read »

Cuomo’s Folly

Jan 9, 2012, 8:55 AM

I am at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Florida this week, attending the nation’s premier conference on estate planning along with seven of my colleagues... Read »

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