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A Broad Shadow Docket Slaying

…And would’ve come much closer to providing a coherent justification than anything he did write. In his annual report, Roberts chastised judicial critics for failing to understand the opinions. “Read the opinion,”…

Questioning the Court’s Decisions

…at the Roberts Court, where, aside from the headline-grabbing tariffs case, the 6-3 Republican supermajority has been Trump’s most reliable judicial ally. Across the 25 rulings we analyzed, the administration…

It’s The Process, Stupid

…ends. Between public desire and policy output lies a vast network of procedural mechanisms: committees, legislative rules, voting thresholds, procedural delays, electoral structures, campaign finance systems, judicial appointments, executive discretion,…

Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

Housing Update

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…