As the EPA is about to officially release rules limiting greenhouse gases, read legal scholar Ann Carlson on how the rules are remarkably business friendly (counter to what Republican attack ads might say) and economist Eban Goodstein on how these rules will actually cost taxpayers very little (counter to what Republican attack ads might say).
Former White House economist Jared Bernstein takes a look at Thomas Piketty’s book on inequality and points out that one reason capital has become so powerful is because labor has become much less powerful. It’s worth a read.
When the NRA has to announce that your gun activism idea is just amazingly stupid, it may be time to rethink.
It’s treated as a given that Obamacare will be at best a wash for Democrats this year. And because out-party voters and Republicans (who happen to be the same people this year) will be highly motivated, it could well hurt Democrats quite a bit. That seems especially so since so many key Senate races are in largely white and ruralish states where Obama and Obamacare have always been disproportionately unpopular. But I’m starting to think there’s a chance Obamacare could be Mitch McConnnell’s undoing.
A penny (officially a “One Mil”) from Mandate Palestine, struck in 1927.
Arabic, English and Hebrew.
Each script and language shows a variant of the word “Palestine.” By way of compromise, the Hebrew initials for “Eretz Israel” are set in parentheses to the left of “Palestina.”
Admitting privileges are the new wave of anti-abortion legislation taking place in states, and Robin Marty explains why the Wisconsin lawsuit currently being argued may be ground zero for the next major limit on abortion access.
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