Politics
- Simon Johnson, The Long March of the American Right
- Robert Reich, The Triumph of the Right
- Sen. Warren on the job
- Roll Call,Reid: ‘There’s Not Going to Be a Grand Bargain’
- Marisa DeFranco: Candidate for US Congress, Massachusetts 6th District
- WBUR CommonHealth, What Makes [Donald] Berwick Run [for MA Governor]?
Taxes
- Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, Why the 1% should pay tax at 80%
- NY Times, Plan to Tax the Rich Could Aim Higher
Health Care and the Politics Thereof
- Paul Krugman, Lies, Damned Lies, and Fox News
- Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt, Raising the Medicare eligibility age is now a REALLY bad idea
- Paul Krugman, Lousy Medicaid Arguments
- I’m collecting material for a post on the problems with HealthCare.gov. My working title was originally “Obamacare Implementation Fail” but is now “HealthCare.gov needs to work.” The latter is more to the point. Stay tuned.
Economics
- Brad DeLong, How To Know More About the Budget than Every Single Republican Office-Holder, Flack, and Think-Tanker in Washington–and Also More than 90% of the Democrats (Note to self: Start reading Off the Charts blog.)
- Dean Baker, Unemployment Edges Down as People Continue to Leave the Workforce in September (The “Unemployment Rate”: “You keep using [that term]. I do not think it means what you think it means.”)
Bank Fraud
Social Commentary
- The Raw Story, Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church
- Amia Srinivasan, Questions for Free-Market Moralists
Science
- Dana Nuccitelli, Does the global warming ‘pause’ mean what you think it means?
- Real Climate, A warming pause?
- NY Times, A Quiet Trip to the Ozone Hole
- NY Times, Balloon Ride to Offer Expansive View, for a Price
- NY Times, Where Science Is Going
Miscellany