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These days I go to the theater once in a blue moon. The last time I wrote a review of a play was in 1971, when I patronized a coffee house theater in New Brunswick, NJ. In college I majored … Continue reading
Jill Leovy’s book gets deep into the weeds of black-on-black homicide in Los Angeles. If it was on the syllabi of public policy/public administration courses, students would actually read it. In the current ‘Black Lives Matter’ debates, black-on-black crime is … Continue reading
I want to respond to this post by Professor Pavlina Tcherneva of Bard College on job guarantees. She seems at pains to distinguish such a guarantee from “big government.” I have no such need. We still live in a society … Continue reading
Let’s take #BlackLivesMatter seriously. I see two different sides to the campaign, as it relates to the Left. One is rejection of the idea that universalist policies take pride of place over anti-racist ones. I couldn’t agree more. On an … Continue reading
I’ve come across some interesting voices in the past few days. Doug Williams (and others) can be found at TheSouthLawn. (@thesouthlawn) Benjamin P. Dixon is at TheBenjaminDixonShow.com (@thebpdshow) R.L. Stephens II and others is … Continue reading
My friend Matt Bruenig does consistently great stuff, but I have to object to his recent critique of the idea of a Job Guarantee (often called the government as an Employer of Last Resort, or ‘ELR’). I want to walk … Continue reading
Even though it now seems like a long time ago, I freely admit the Bernie blow-up at Netroots Nation has made me a little crazy. Today I finally watched a video of the entire episode and I have to say the … Continue reading
Assorted Hillary Clinton stooges are telling lies about Bernie. I suspect that the HRC camp is seeding the ground for this effort, because paranoids have enemies too. One area is immigration reform. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL), supporter of Rahm Emanuel … Continue reading
My friend and former boss Larry Mishel has an early take. Here’s another at TPM. And here’s the awesome Joe Stiglitz phoning in a very not-awesome plug (“Today Hillary Clinton began to offer . . . ” Began? How much more time … Continue reading