…University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a member of the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission and Co-Chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. “How world’s…

…back in session today, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill to establish an independent commission to evaluate the president’s mental state. The…

…tomorrow, Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, is the one that will be argued by the St. Louis lawyer. You can read about it here. It is, best as I…

…what Wikipedia’s summary of how commissioners are selected under the Federal Communications Act, which established the FCC: The FCC is directed by five commissioners appointed by the President of the…

…term ‘fiscal cliff’ implies] “a problem of excessive deficits when it’s actually about the risk that the deficit will be too small; also and relatedly, the fiscal cliff stuff enables…

…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…

…still be some private label issues and they will be crowded out and, more importantly, the whole point is to get more mortgages written (either for new purchases or refinancing)….

…so of the category that the Report Tables label as “Cost”. These projected future benefits are in turn offset by projected income deriving from one main and two minor sources,…

…to overstate how central the unjustified label of “fiscal conservative” is to the Ryan brand and the GOP’s strategy. As Clinton understood in the 1990s, “fiscal responsibility” is a values…

…most advanced democracies have–under the guise that these programs are too costly, do not require personal responsibility, and can’t be afforded under the new right’s ‘realism’ about the deficits. The…