…of shutdowns.  Democrats are also perceived as weak and amenable to compromise, while Republicans are seen as strong and committed to standing by their often unpopular principles.  The perceived weakness…

…the four institutions, the federal government is viewed as having the most power to positively impact people’s lives, yet it is perceived as the least effective at doing so. Sixty-four…

…of shutdowns.  Democrats are also perceived as weak and amenable to compromise, while Republicans are seen as strong and committed to standing by their often unpopular principles.  The perceived weakness…

…to find jobs. The New York Fed asks workers about their perceived likelihood of finding a new job within three months if laid off. As the chart below shows, this…

…benefits in exchange for the pittance of slightly higher taxes on the upper crust. The article goes even further astray at the end with its label of a “two-part deal”…

…Law — a competence bar EDNC US Attorney Ellis Boyle seemingly failed to clear — will note that the Supreme Court in Counterman v. Colorado (2023), replaced the “reasonable recipient” standard, requiring…

Brad DeLong points to an article by Gary Younge in The Guardian: A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy: Shortly after Mitt Romney’s failed 2008 campaign for the Republican…

…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…

…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…

…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…