Ezra Klein makes the case that Romney might actually be the more effective Keynesian in 2013 because Republicans would let him govern and not be focused on crashing the economy.
It’s a more detailed version of what David Frum has been saying: Vote Republican, it’s too dangerous to have us in opposition.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we just debuted three new original video shows here at TPM. And to put all our video at your fingertips (original shows and awesome rapid-fire clips) we’ve just rolled a new video landing page linked right over there on the upper right hand side of the site, right above LiveWire.
Please take a look; let us know what you think and if there are any improvements you’d suggest.
Interesting new data from Pew. It won’t surprise any of us that partisan affiliation has grown more intense over the last 25 years. But according to this data from Pew basically all other measures have remained stable. In other words, we’re no more divided — according to this data — on racial or gender or education or income grounds. But now it’s party affiliation that is the big dividing line throughout American society. Partisanship is the big, big outlier. Take a look.
Scenes from the weekend celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee.
In today’s episode of The Set-Up, I look at the Massachusetts senate race and how most pundits don’t seem to have noticed that state voters don’t seem to care about Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Cherokee heritage scandal’ …
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Mitt Romney’s pick of Mike Leavitt to head up his transition team is resurfacing the barely concealed conservative misgivings about Romney. Here’s why.
Romney camp defends weak jobs record: He inherited a bad situation.
Scientists find one more reason to get excited about graphene.
Photos of the 60 years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign — from Charlie Chaplin to Ronald Reagan to … flame-throwing robots.