Tag: Dave Schuler
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What’s an Elite College?
How finite is prestige?
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The Glittering Eye at 15
Congrats to Dave Schuler on his blogiversary.
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Solving The District Of Columbia Problem
There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.
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Trump’s ‘National Emergency’ And The Law
President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.
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The Phony Arguments Against Withdrawing From Afghanistan
The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.
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No, Trump is Not ‘Authoritarian’
The President is an ignoramus and a blowhard and a petulant child but he’s operating within the Constitutional limits of his office.
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Retirement is Killing Our Infrastructure
Pensions and health care costs for the elderly are crowding out other vital spending.
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Dad’s Stuff is Junk, Grandma’s Stuff is Treasure?
Does trash become treasure with time?
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Political Temper Tantrums and the Constitution
The efforts by Speaker Pelosi and President Trump to leverage their institutional powers raise interesting questions.
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The U.S. And NATO Should Stay Out Of The Russia-Ukraine Fight
Notwithstanding the temptation to do something, both the United States and NATO need to resist the temptation to get involved in the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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Trump Sides With Saudis In Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi
In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.
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Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Reveals Widespread Abuse In Catholic Church
A Pennsylvania Grand Jury report reveals decades of abuse by some 300 Catholic Priests impacting more than 1,000 children and 26 of the state’s Roman Catholic Diocese.
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Americans Have A Hard Time Telling Fact From Opinion
A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.
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Madison, Will, and the Ambitions of the GOP
Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.
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George Will: Vote Democrat in November
The dean of conservative columnists argues that the Republican Congress must be taught a lesson.
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The Presidency Of Exhaustion
More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.
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The Real Tragedy Of Bill Cosby Isn’t About The Fall From Grace Of “America’s Dad”
The tragedy of Bill Cosby lies not in the downfall of a man once known as “America’s Dad,” but in the fact that a man who was, in fact, a sexual predator was allowed to evade justice for far too long.
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Once Again, There Are No Good Options In Syria. So Let’s Not Do Anything At All.
The United States can’t do any good in Syria, but we can do a lot of bad.
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Central American Migrant Caravan Headed This Way
More than 1200 refugees, mostly from Honduras, are trying to come to the United States. What should we do about it?
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NRA’s Post-Parkland Tone Deafness
Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.
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Former Secretary Of Nobel Committee Says Obama’s Peace Prize Was A Mistake
Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.
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West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Nets 5% Raise
We may about to see a wave of teacher strikes.
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South Africa Votes to Confiscate White-Owned Land
Under Nelson Mandela’s leadership, the country made a smooth transition from apartheid. Now it’s going the way of Zimbabwe.
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What is the Middle Class and is It Shrinking?
Salary-based definitions distort the conversation. And lifestyle-based definitions are a moving target.
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VA Care for All?
Dave Schuler argues the US would have a much better healthcare system if we had modeled it on VA clinics rather than private insurance.
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Hyperpartisanship Continues To Ruin Our Political Culture And Our Country, And We’re Letting It Happen
The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.
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Don’t Bother Searching For A ‘Trump Doctrine,” There Won’t Be One
When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump has no over-arching philosophy and little knowledge, so don’t expect anything approaching a coherent doctrine from his Administration.
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The State Of The Union Address Is Unnecessary and Irrelevant
Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.
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Remember Pearl Harbor?
Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.
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Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term As German Chancellor, But Voters Also Send A Warning
Angela Merkel was re-elected to a fourth term as German Chancellor as expected, but voters also sent a warning.
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Why Negotiations With North Korea Are (Currently) Impossible
Absent significant changes, expecting normal diplomatic relationships with the DPRK is a pipe dream.
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Trump Is Unlikely To Ever Be A Popular President
Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.
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Liar Liar Pants On Fire
This story has the fortunate coincidence of simultaneously being both a lawyer joke and a Florida Man joke, except it’s apparently true: A Miami defense lawyer’s pants burst into flames Wednesday afternoon as he began his closing arguments in front of a jury — in an arson case. Stephen Gutierrez, who was arguing that his…
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Estimates of the Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA?
I am going to construct a complicated mathematical model of the economy, and then I’m going to calibrate it using some actual data, and in the end I will be able to tell everyone how much better or worse off they are given various changes in the economy. And it will be totally and completely…
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ObamaCare Having Predictable Effects on Healthcare Market
We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.
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Regulatory Capture and the Revolving Door
Top officials of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have taken jobs in the industry they were regulating.
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ObamaCare’s Predicted Effects Coming True
Major carriers are reporting massive losses and demanding major rate hikes to cover the costs imposed by PPACA.
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The Quixotic Quest for the Radical Center
Americans don’t trust their government or each other. There’s no reason to hope it’ll get better.
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Blog Fatigue
As longtime OTB readers may have noticed, I’m not writing much these days.
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The Battle Of The 2016 Narratives
To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?
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Hillary Clinton Comes Out Against Trade Bill She Negotiated and Touted
Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.
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Reports Of Hillary Clinton’s Impending Political Demise Are Mostly Just Wishful Thinking
Even with a recent negative downturn in the polls, the reports of Hillary Clinton’s impending political demise are largely wishful thinking on the part of conservatives.
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Too Much PII
Dave Schuler proposes a “radical idea” to safeguard individual privacy “in the wake of the hacking of Sony and the multiple credit card exploits over the last year or so.”
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Clinton Foundation Not Really a Charity
It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.
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Is 2016 a 50-50 Proposition?
Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.
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ISIS Gaining Ground . . . But We’ve Stopped Their Momentum!
ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.
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Should Lawmaking Be Left to Congress?
Should the Legislature take back legislating from the Executive?