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As in December 2010, trading tax cuts
At cliff's edge, Obama lays down his conciliator chips
The dangers of last-minute dealing
Does Andrew Dream of Electrified Woodchucks?
Tyler Cowen's modest proposal for an imaginary GOP
Epistemic closure: the prequel
Dark matter in John Boehner's pool
Chaining ourselves to (slightly) higher tax rates
At least chained-CPI is chained to reality
When SSI is the only route to health insurance
When Nick Kristof stretches a study
In which I jump to a conclusion
If loophole closures are benefit cuts, are benefit cuts tax hikes?
In which Henry Aaron talks himself into supporting a raised Medicare eligibility age
White man: "whaddaya mean, we?"
The price of dealing with an extremist opposition?
De-deducting your way to $800 billion in new revenue
An incentive that works less well than I thought
You want real deficit reduction? Try this...
In Spielberg's Lincoln, don't underestimate Thaddeus Stevens
If only votes were weighted by net worth...
Notes from the bully pulpit: no one hears you when unemployment is at 10%
Writhing out of Norquist's embrace, Part V
Post-truth political appreciation
Does the Affordable Care Act "soak the young"?
NRO's Jim Geraghty: Romney lost - tis all for the best
David Frum's seductive vision of the Moderate Mitt that might have been
In which I cozy up to my GOP governor
A prophet not without honor save in his own party
Obama can't quite keep it simple
Contrast of conservatives: Brooks vs. Bartlett
Another silver bullet for election forecasting
The real final score: Obama 11, Romney 1
Obama to his young supporters: Haply I think on thee...
Fiscal cliff notes: speak however, but wield that stick
How's that "more perfect union" working out?
Psychology of campaign donations: reverse-causation giving
Obama claims victory for his "United States"
Burning off the nerves on election night
The president as champion of the people
Capitulate, Chait! Succumb, Drum! Obama's rhetoric is a force for change
Romney's quicksilver Detroit turnaround
Romney Rules special edition: the meta-ethics of the post-truth campaign
Paul Krugman closes his own private enthusiasm gap
Obama looks forward to the whip hand
Conservative debate watchers have a point, but...
Moderate Mitt vs. Nimble Obama
The promise of an Obama second term
Obama, beware of Romnesia on foreign policy tomorrow night
RIP, George McGovern: we're still a long way from home
Why does Obama let Romney get away with his "doubled the deficit" charge?
At the close, a ritual slaughter
In defense of the boomers, who don't exist
Maybe I shouldn't do debate assessment
"The most important thing Joe Biden can do"
Done in by friendly fire? Dead-blogging the Obama-Romney debate
Tankersley's case against the boomers: summarily dismissed
The credo of a community organizer
Generalizations about generations are generally fatuous
Time to trot out my 16-month unemployment movement rule
Romney is slippery when all wet
Obama beware: Romney's tax plan is a moving target
From AEI, one more weak whack at TPC's debunk of Romney's tax reform "plan"
Giving Ryan undue credit for Wyden-Ryan
Mitt Romney's "them" vs. Bill Clinton's "I and thou"
Obama urges the world to win the future
Obama sings his half-step with the Arab Spring
Is "breaking the fever" Obama's fever dream?
Andrew Sullivan's vision for Obama is appealing. But what about Afghanistan?
"Unless" war is necessary? -- or until?
Rory Stewart's sorrowful assessment of the Afghanistan project
Ezra Klein's unconvincing theory that Obama misunderstands (or misrepresents) "change"
Meanwhile, outside our sandbox...
The 47 percent and the case for voter suppression
True conservatives to the Randians: you're devouring the base
Print those "Don't Worry About Me, Mitt" tee shirts! (or on second thought, don't)
Placeholder: Rattner suffers Ryan version confusion
Netanyahu drives his bus at Obama
Perfidious Obama, Assaultive Obama
The U.S. as "selective superpower"? Not if Romney can help it
Say it's so, Joe, and say it loud
Did Romney "panic"? Or revert to form?
The key word here is "disgraceful"
Obama freezes out extremists and hysterics
Mitt's standing prescription for America: Go (hardware) shopping
We may be on the brink of a democratic miracle
Obama maintains hope, but not in comity
In GOP heaven, St. Ronnie is lonely
Defending Medicaid is personal for Clinton
MIchelle brings Obama's story home
The Wall Street Journal editorialists rush in where Romney fears to tread
Romney launches an apology tour
What Romney means when he says Obama "attacks success"
Obama corrects an expired talking point
Some quick politicized thoughts at the checkout counter
A plea to Warren Buffett and his ilk
In which Romney confuses two strongmen
What the battle for the undecideds boils down to
Obama flashes his debate strategy
Fallows builds up Romney the debater
GOP Demonization Index soars again
Paul Ryan's Medicare/Medicaid shell game
And you shall teach them to your children
From Palin to Ryan: a short history of demonizing IPAB
Can the Competition Fairy control healthcare costs?
One big happy future family: Romneycare, Obamacare, Ryancare
How Wyden muddled the Democrats' attack on RyanCare
Misrepresentation of the ACA in the Supreme Court: a postscript
Two feelings about Slaughterhouse-Five
Romney Rule #14: You are responsible for your side's Super PAC; I'm not for mine
Hey, I caught a pattern in Oct. 2008
In which Kristof plays me like a fiddle
Mitt Romney, taxer of muni bonds?
A boring white guy will (counter)balance Romney's ticket
A data point on the conservative side
Buffalo Gardens 2012: A propensity for density
Why is Bowles-Simpson more progressive than Romney's "very similar" plan?
My land, how Romney whined when caught lying in 2002
Romney's pandering fools no one
GOP leaders: GOP is unfit to govern
Aspiring Pander in Chief offers Israel carte blanche
"There are a lot of smart people out there": Frum gets past Obama's loose pronoun
A little distance on the post-truth campaign
A glimpse of the post-ownership society?
When the Romney campaign perjured Romney (retroactively)
Romney Rule #13: Any attack on me negates all rules of engagement
An overwrought rap on Bain from the Boston Phoenix?
In which I agree with a Dish reader
The last time Romney stonewalled on taxes
Romney campaign contradicts Romney testimony
Some wispy hints that Romney was not 100% hands-off at Bain, 1999-2002
The only adult in the (Heritage Foundation) room
Romney to pick an UnPalin for Veep
Plain sense, and a touch of nonsense, from Obama on taxes
The method behind Mitt's mendacious madness
The presidential campaign in story and song
Romney deems Obama a liar ex post facto
Thanks, Sarah! Americans believe the ACA has death panels
The presidential campaign in story and song
A pair of July 4 warnings, and one eulogy
Justice Roberts spares the country's pound of flesh
Broccoli-robbed! The Wall Street Journal's beef with John Roberts
A radical departure? Congress can tax inactivity
Conservative justices deny Congress a power that Congress doesn't want
To what extent did SCOTUS inhibit Congress's power to regulate commerce?
"Verrilli, slapped silly, recovers willy-nilly" revisited
Footnote to a fact-checked false impression
As The American Prospect goes, so goes the American prospect?
My last best shot in defense of the ACA
The conservative justices shake the Etch-a-Sketch -- twice
What about state-imposed individual mandates?
Smart messaging, with a large dollop of denial, from Aetna's Bertolini
The morality tale that may sink the ACA, cont.
Customer Relationship Management, Murdoch style
Would the ACA reduce the number of Americans on disability insurance?
In which Timothy Egan completes Tyler Cowen
Three possible surprise rulings on the Affordable Care Act
Obama contrasts two economic visions -- and fact- vs. fiction-based campaigning
The day American democracy died?
The kernel of truth in blaming Obama
Romney Rules, cont.: blame Obama for effects of policies I advocate
The real problem with Obama's June 8 press conference
Reminder: manufacturing jobs were not always 'good' jobs
Wisconsin shuts barn door after horse bolts
What's Obama's peer group job creation ranking? Way better than 47th of 50
Hey, maybe the Budget Control Act was a 60-yard punt for Obama after all...
The bogus economic basis of the case against the individual mandate
A false choice between hope and fear
"In Mitt Romney's America..." -- Scare us, Obama
Iran wants sanctions relief; Israel ain't gettin' no total enrichment ban
Gallup's scary polling on economic issues
An upright man who lies nonstop
Spinning in the mirror with Iran
A Rory Stewart Afghan strategy -- on timed release?
Is Obama still paying for the debt ceiling debacle?
A growing chorus indicts GOP intransigence (updated)
A growing chorus indicts GOP intransigence
Citizens United* has changed...me
Portrait of the candidate as a cruel child
Misrepresentation of the mandate in the Supreme Court: why it still matters
Lugar's noble sign-off, leavened with false equivalence
Reset to Massachusetts moderate: Romney fondly recalls Bill Clinton
Attention, Justices Kennedy, Roberts et al: read the young people's brief
Hey, Romneycare may get a 'death panel'
Supply-side gastronomics: does low rent and cheap labor mean good food?
A catastrophic error: The misrepresentation of the ACA's individual mandate in the Supreme Court
Obama at Bagram, cont.: a caveat for Samuel Popkin
A Catastrophic Error: The Misrepresentation of the ACA's Individual Mandate in the Supreme Court
Obama at Bagram: binaries, bookends and bye-byes
Gideon Rachman takes on Krugman on Eur-austerity
Tidbits from La Seduction: dinner with uncuddly Rupert, titters over DSK
Israel vs. Iran: the kook's on the other foot
Kaiser weighs in: the ACA offers catastrophic coverage to all comers
If you were a Supreme Court justice...
Pulping the bully approach to presidential leadership, cont.
The individual mandate is a piece of Cake
Verrilli's 'limiting principles' for the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act
Another 'limiting principle' to individual mandate: states can opt out
Learning, pleasure, identity, mortality
Obama moved 'from hope to hardball' last September
Jonathan Cohn tells the justices: the ACA has catastrophic coverage options
Hey, Simon Johnson agrees with me!
Paint Romney as a conservative who's flipped his last flop
Attention, Barney Frank: Obama was the partisan warrior when it counted most
Malcolm X's enduring indictment
I'm in Mitt Romney's tax bracket...
Michael Carvin misrepresented the mandate in oral argument
"Those books are for kids"? C.S. Lewis says no
The ACA offers catastrophic coverage: the AP notices!
Cutting welfare in a recession: what doesn't go round doesn't come round
Obama's "math" for Ryan's budget: the assumptions are the point
Marty Lederman concurs: individual mandate could be trimmed not killed
The GOP conjures up a candidate
Obama: Reagan "could not get through a Republican primary today"
If IQ declines in rich countries, where does that leave our better angels?
Attention Alito, Roberts, Scalia: the ACA has a catastrophic coverage option
Go tell the justices: the ACA has a catastrophic coverage option
If only Verrilli had said (A, B, C)...
GOP "cruelty" revisited, and redoubled
Verrilli, slapped silly, recovers willy-nilly
Rock-a my soul in the bosom of 'bamacare?
Egyptian Etch-A-Sketch, fear in -huville, etc.
Erasing the context of Fehrnstrom's gaffe
Jeremy Ben-Ami: economic pressure doesn't work?
Does Netanyhau know whether Netanyahu has been "bluffing"?
Proud owners of the post-truth campaign
Rip Van Winkle looks at Super PACs
The busted grand bargain was terrible -- but was it even worse than we knew at the time?
Is anyone around here interested in peace?
Good riddance to Grand Bargain
Religious exemption for contraceptive coverage: who pays when the employer is self-insured? (cont.)
Attention, delegate math mavens: it ain't over when it's over
If the Democrats had a Romney of their own
The case for Obama's weakness that the GOP won't use
In defense (a little) of Mitt Romney
Romney keeps hacking at Obamacare's shadow limb
Bibi bearing gifts: it's the thought that counts
Obama maneuvers within a 'sacrosanct' commitment
The president who doesn't do sound bytes, revisited
Romney on Rush: it's the thought that counts?
Romney's blueprint for Obamacare, July 2009
The president who doesn't do sound bytes
Yes, Citizens United did unlatch the Super PAC floodgates
On "moral responsibility" to Israel
In Mesa, Santorum completes his demolition of Romney's false Romneycare/Obamacare contrast
The race for fearmonger in chief
Another unheeded warning from Cassandra Krugman
Romney's abortion conversion fooled no one in 2005
Romney's lullaby can't soothe Detroit
In which I am blinded by my own propensities
Has the administration caved on contraception?
Mitt Romney, community organizer
Updated: Will self-funded plans have to offer contraception?
Obama: It ain't worth a fig if it ain't got my sig
Obama pops a morning-after pill
Chait on the chess master, and one missing piece
"The End of Wall Street as They Knew It": lament or celebration?
Will self-funded plans have to offer contraception?
Judging Obama by his own standards
Niall Ferguson, enthusiast for the Iraq war, wants another preemptive strike
The Silver bullet for election prediction may need lengthening
Attention, Tomasky: Obama always links prosperity to fairness
By Romney Rules, Romney likes to fire people
Reason vs. love, or Steven Pinker vs. Martin Luther King
Go tell the Democrats: the golden Newt-goose is dead
The difference between Gingrich and Romney distilled
In which I extract some hope from the news of the day
Attention, David Brooks: "Romney grits" are not the issue
Obama the minimalist nation builder
Newt blames everyone but himself for his troubles (HUGE CHEERS)
Bill Clinton's post-mortem on 2010
Thank GOP voters for small favors
Better Angels in Super Hornets
Shooting skeet was excellent practice. It taught them to shoot skeet."*
Erasing the King of Bain Stain
Santorum promises universal daycare!
Tell us more, David Brooks: why do Americans mistrust government?
Perry keeps skidding on smears
Socratic Santorum sidetracks students
Paint Romney as flip-flopper or right-winger? Both/and!