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Sunday, July 27, 2025
The Political Representation of the European People
A discussion of whether rising political pressure can produce needed economic and democratic reforms.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: No longer an open thread. Supply chain, Iranian aircraft, Democrat hilarity, Thomas Frank, consumer credit, small business optimism, consumer expectations, debt, Paul Krugman, Jobs Guarantee, municipal socialism, Janus, rationality, ethics of AI
The “Illegals” and Our Professional Classes
The nannies who are employed by the professional class on up….
How Data Service Naviance Helps Students of Elite High Schools Get Into Top Colleges
On the role that Naviance plays in the college application process at elite high schools.
A Baby Was Treated With A Nap And A Bottle Of Formula. The Bill Was $18,000.
Trauma fees are expensive and vary widely from one hospital to another.
Gaius Publius: How to Block the Trump Nomination: Shut Down the Senate
Will the Democrats have the guts to use Senate procedure their advantage?
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Soy, Clinton 2020?, Pelosi messaging, crapification watch, cheese, lithium, cobalt, tinfoil, Bitcoin, robot cars and civil liability, Hollywood, New Yorker cartoons
Who, Exactly, Are the “Illegals,” Anyhow?
Deconstructing the Times’ coverage of an immigration raid
SEC Knifes Its Whistleblower Program
Just when you think the SEC can’t possibly to more to demonstrate how toothless it is, it reinforces its sorry reputation in by gutting its Dodd-Frank mandated whistleblower, and worse, in a manner that Commission Kara Stein suggest is illegal.
Beyond Nord Stream 2: A Look at Russia’s Turk Stream project
For Europe, thinking about energy security means thinking about Russia.
David Davis Resignation Throws UK Brexit, Cabinet Into Chaos
Brexit goes chaotic.
The Jobs Guarantee, “Make-Work,” and FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Recapturing the lost history of the FDR administration
