Rounding Out the List 16. Justice Henry Billings Brown: For authoring the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which not only lead directly to the “separate but equal” doctrine,…

…On the other hand, there’s this: WASHINGTON (AP) — In another swipe at the French, a Florida congresswoman [Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, first-termer] has proposed that the government pay for families…

…YoY % Change, With Trends I’ve placed parallel trend boundaries around what I see as major secular trends. Green lines identify the upward trend and brown lines identify the downward…

…The Democratic leaders intended to fix and improve ACA in conference committee, but the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts made that unnecessary, so the unpolished version was passed.)  …

Lots of desperation talk these days by Republicans hoping to win future national elections by increasing their share of the “missing” white vote, while ignoring all those brown people. (Sean…

…and patients must begin to realize that, as California governor Jerry Brown tried to tell us back in 1974: “Less is more.” For years, Americans have resisted this idea. Until…

…moves up to the natural limit (green line) and then pulls away below potential GDP (brown line) through a contraction. Here is a close-up for the last 7 years. The…

…one of these days a genuine progressive who has been fighting in the congressional trenches for progressive legislation–Sherrod Brown, I hope, or maybe Jeff Merkley–will show signs of interest in…

…central bank interest rate to be lower when there is more spare capacity. Ideally a central bank would set the interest rate so that the brown and blue dashed lines…

…of Kansas, backed by deep-pocketed outside groups, were able to purge Republicans they viewed as insufficiently devoted to Governor Sam Brownback’s (called Brown Shirt by many) right wing agenda. Since…