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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Politics and specific policies

…is that Obama has been there and done that. Golonkin’s innovative conservative proposals are mostly existing liberal policies. Golonkin: Somewhere along the way, we conservatives stopped innovating and stopped explaining,…

A Different Look at GDP and Inflation

…last two years. This clearly belies the Romney claim that Obama’s economic policies have failed. His policies have moved us from near-depression to mere mediocrity. That counts as some sort…

B-school professors blast Bush economic policies

MaxSpeaks is on fire today. His Business School Professors to Bush: Your Policies Stink is a letter from a long list of distinguished business school professors hitting a long of…

Why are so many pundits conflating U.S. blue-collar voters’ concerns that are similar to their British counterparts’ who voted for Brexit with the separate issue of whether the Brexit vote itself will influence U.S. blue-collar voters’ votes in November? These are completely different issues.

…for his nationalist message of restoring American greatness through restrictionist immigration policies and turning the clock back on globalization. So it’s a bit surprising to see that a new Bloomberg/Morning…