…Public Options in Health Plan, NY Times, Sept. 29, 2009. Kent Conrad, Bill Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Thomas Carper–those are purported Democrats who voted against Rockefeller’s public option. Conrad and Lincoln…

…are united on one very large and very successful free-trade zone. Karol, Thomas, and I live in Burke, Virginia. We are free to trade not only with cabbage growers in…

…SCHUMER, NY (H) DEBBIE STABENOW, MI (H) MARIA CANTWELL, WA (H) BILL NELSON, FL (H) ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ (H) THOMAS CARPER, DE (H) Republicans CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA (G) ORRIN G….

…about some of the greats who built the intellectual superstructure that underpins Catholicism: St. Augustine, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas were in their various eras intellectual giants fully equal to…

Robert Waldmann This is an extraordinarily good article by Washington Post standards. OK I’m biased. The topic is how great my dad Thomas Waldmann MD is, but it is really…

…out of something called the Jimmy Carter Institute or Jimmy Carter Institution. You might find the lefty equivalent of a Thomas Sowell (oy, now I gotta go wash my hands)…

…in a Thomas Barnett-ish world where all the big players gang up to police the world, it’s prosperity and security that are positive sum, not raw power. Anyone care to…

…around the globe, including Olivier Blanchard, Janos Bogardi, Francois Bourguignon, Noam Chomsky, Richard Cooper, Evsey Gurvich, Thomas Hoenig, Robert Johnson, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Wim Naude, Léonce Ndikumana, Eisuke Sakakibara, Luc…

…co-author Thomas Picketty was a theorists theorist when he was young (and I mean really really young like 20 or so) and shifted to totally empirical because he didn’t believe…

Greenwald on Harman. Read the whole thing. Sample: when the U.S. Government eavesdropped for years on American citizens with no warrants and in violation of the law, that was “both…