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On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.

How the conservative Democrat should be negotiating with his party.

The real obstacles to addressing greenhouse gas emissions are not the politicians, the billionaires or even the oil companies. The real obstacles are the voters themselves.

And the Senate prepares to move on the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The news from Washington last week, as usual, was grim. Senate Republicans blocked legislation to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Bipartisan talks over President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposals are dragging out.

Moderation In Pursuit Of Social Justice Is An Indispensable Virtue Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Other virtues are needed, too, of course. It takes moral imagination and often physical courage to stand up against invidious discrimination and entrenched disadvantage. It takes clarity of purpose and unflagging perseverance to stick to one’s guns in the face of indifference, denial, obfuscation, and temporizing. But in the end, whe...

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Economy, finance, and budgets Even before Twitter banned Donald Trump and Amazon stopped hosting the social media site Parler on its web services, free-speech controversies had been regularly erupting at newspapers, magazines, websites, and book publishers. Notable recent cases involved high-profile journalists decamping from their established media homes to independent platforms where they could express themselves freely. The departures, under pressure, of Matt Yglesias last November from the ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: If President Biden’s trying to improve the job outlook in the U.S., he doesn’t need to get in the economy’s way. Unfortunately, his new infrastructure plan, called the American Jobs Plan, is going to do just that. While unveiling the huge amount of government spending in the new plan, the president is urging for private investment to deal with specific issues like climate change, manufacturing and housing. But, despite what he thinks, paying for infrastructure by taxing ...

A Grand Bargain on Wages and Immigration? Mar 01 2021, 1:08 AM February 28 2021, 6:30 PM March 01 2021, 1:08 AM (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton have an intriguing idea. The two Republican senators want to raise the minimum wage, which progressives like, but pair it with stronger national enforcement of laws against hiring immigrants without legal work permits, which many conservatives support. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton have an intriguing idea. The tw...