I was catching up on the back issues of New Yorker accumulating on the coffee table, and read an article about the rise and decline of libertarianism in the GOP….

…What Autocrats Do’: Concern Grows Over Single Paragraph Buried Deep in GOP Bill,” Common Dreams A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of…

Ladies and gentlemen, your GOP nanny state: “House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election…

…Deal for petty concessions from the entrenched GOP that intends to dismantle the New Deal. Obama has been threatening to include chained CPI as one of his own budget recommendations….

by Linda Beale American Enterprise Institute’s Arthur Brooks on budgets and taxes Arthur Brooks of the American Heritage Institute had an op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s Budget Flunks…

…that the fight to end public worker bargaining rights was all about the budget, Governor Walker stripped the collective bargaining provisions out of the budget (which required the participation of…

…problem with the perennial accounting gimmickry. All that does is paper over the problem and pass it along to the next budget year. That’s what Schwartzeneggar did in part in…

…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…

…not only a great read but also a revealing informational source on the changes in the American polity, she does note the label he attaches to the right-wing resurgence (“breadwinner…

Okay, more jargon. But important jargon because the policy proposals are starting from different baselines themselves defined by this jargon. So while some of the following is basic, it is…