Paul Krugman
Romney Reminds Us How Little He Understands the Rest of America
Mitt Romney has caught some grief for comments he made about health care last week. It seems to me he deserves a lot more. READ MORE >>
It’s easy to find surveys purporting to show that Americans want a smaller government offering fewer services. It’s even easier to find conservatives who believe them. But it’s not true, or if it is true, only with a implicit qualification—fewer services for someone else. READ MORE >>
This Should Be Obama’s Answer to ‘Are You Better Off?’
Rage Of The Golfing Class
Duplicitous Agents, Hollywood’s Problems, and Paul Krugman’s European Trip: Today’s TNR Reader
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! What’s wrong with Hollywood? Could Malcolm X even get made today? Spike Lee has some answers. NYMag | 24 min 6,037 words) READ MORE >>
Obama, Still a Terrible Socialist
Government spending has gotten out of control under President Obama. You hear that argument all the time—from Mitt Romney, congressional Republicans, and conservative critics. And it’s just not true. READ MORE >>
The Blind Spot in Romney's Economic Plan
Think Cranks
Paul Krugman has a nice shoutout to my "Crankocracy" TRB on his blog and points out that crankocrats long ago seized control of conservative think tanks. This is an important point I wish I'd included. "[W]hat the money of rich cranks does," Krugman observes, "is ensure that bad ideas never go away—indeed, they can gain strength even as they fail in practice again and again." READ MORE >>
