…a 5% normalized rate when the blue plot reaches near zero. How well has the actual Fed rate followed this pattern? Compare how the brown and red lines move up…

…1930’s the strong norm was that overtly or even tacitly overturning Supreme Court precedent was very rare. Brown v. Bd. of Ed. was the most prominent instance of the express…

…parceled out in various ways. – Susan K. Brown and Frank D. Bean, “Population Growth” in Debates on U. S. Immigration, edited by Judith Gans et al. One misunderstanding we…

…Sherrod Brown and three or four others–among them now Chris Murphy of Connecticut, he made clear a day or two ago in an eloquent statement–who comprise the Senate’s contingent of…

…testimonies from Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, and others On a personal note, I saw Kirby Brown at City Winery last week, and this is the one song he covered in…

…On Wednesday, Kaine was one of 13 Democratic senators to withhold his signature from a letter authored by Sherrod Brown, which called for strengthening new rules against abusive payday lenders….

…current senators. So is Jeff Merkley. And Sherrod Brown. And Dick Durbin. And Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed. And Tammy Baldwin. And so, hopefully, will Russell Feingold and Tammy Duckworth,…

…those problems and then said, simply, that the party’s platform and additional ideas from her campaign and from Dems in Congress—Warren, Sanders, Sherrod Brown, Dick Durbin, Jeff Merkley, although she…

…journalists and judges/justices! There’s method to my madness. ____ ADDENDUM: And then there is this, posted this morning on the Washington Post’s website: The dog, a brown and black Yorkshire…

…Clinton so wrapped up the Party before the election season even begun that no progressive other than Bernie challenged her. Not Sherrod Brown, not Elizabeth Warren. No one but Bernie,…