We have got to calm down and not take tragedies like this, crimes like this, and use them for political purposes. — Grover Norquist, yesterday I agree. We also shouldn’t,…

NRA campaigns to bring a gun to work should be remembered: Actually, the NRA’s power has been waning since at least 2005 when it declared a boycott against ConocoPhillips, a…

There is still a lot of headline material concerning the role of guns in our lives, and a lot of anecdotal material and thoughts abound. Also I seem to note…

The other day I looked at number of guns versus number of gun deaths by country, in countries like ours that have pretty good rule of law. The correlation is…

House Republicans argue that voters handed their members a mandate as well, granting the party control of the House for another two years and with it the right to stick…

When I was eighteen years old, I went down to the government office in Olympia, Washington with my friend Steve (no, not that Steve) and signed as the character witness…

The economic policies proposed for states by the conservative American Legislative Council Exchange (ALEC) not only don’t work, but carry risks for states’ economies, according to new research by the…

This video featuring Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff is worth watching. Independent political and economic analysts Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith join Bill in a…

From David Zetland comes this re-posting from Aguanomics on addressing issues in the political economy for water. The political-economy of water…all in auctions I’ve been working on this idea for…