Guest post by Kenneth Thomas America Shows No Increase in College Graduation Rates over the last 30 Years Jared Bernstein (via Paul Krugman) highlights an amazing breakdown in the prospects…

…a Woman of the People?, Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times, today Might the reason that Rubio, Bush and Walker poll as well as they do be precisely that they—and…

…they were unable to recall from one question to the next whether they were asking about current law (Dodd-Frank) or instead about possible new legislation. Not to mention, although Grim…

…I referenced above about the Paris Climate accord, the NYT Fact Checks of the 2016 Election blog’s Thomas Kaplan wrote: Discussing climate change on Monday, Mrs. Clinton cited her “very…

…by, say, the Pennsylvanians interviewed by NYT columnist Thomas B. Edsall. The Strauss article goes on to say, “Davis has also served as political director to Sen. Claire McCaskill.” Which…

…them about the likelihood of reversing trends in globalization and automation — Morning Plum, Greg Sargent, Washington Post, today I’m certainly no fan of NYT columnist Thomas Friedman—he of “Go…

…Ken Thomas has his very thorough analysis Foxconn Cashes in for $3 Billion-Plus: Analysis up. The first being the wonkier, the 2nd is a Bloomberg discussion, and Ken’s is an…

…and Democratic voters. The Michigan passage of the so-called “right-to-work” law and the renewal of the emergency manager law AFTER it was defeated by the people in November are perfect…

…has centered on al-Qaeda, Iran and the sectarian violence they have promoted. But in the homogenous south — where there are virtually no U.S. troops or al-Qaeda fighters, few Sunnis,…

…literacy-impaired cohort, Jeffrey Goldberg, are lamenting that the kids are not being taught to be cannon fodder, but will wait for Susan of Texas (whose current marvelous takedown of Publicity…