by Hunter The obsessive centrists of the punditverse are abuzz with praise for supposed centrist Democratic organization Third Way and their grumbling op-ed condemnation of Democratic liberal populism in abstract and “economic populists” like Sen....
via NPR ALEC is sort of almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians, and many of America’s biggest companies. It brings them together much as a dating service would do. It sits them in rooms behind closed doors where...
by Paul Rosenberg Hilary Hoynes is a University of California at Berkeley economist who wrote a particularly notable paper last year. Instead of increasing dependency, as conservative critics have repeatedly claimed, Hoyen’s paper showed that, for women at least, food...
By Dana Milbank “What you fundamentally need to know about this organization is it’s completely legislator driven,” said senior director of public affairs Bill Meierling. Uh-huh. And ALEC is proving that by keeping reporters from the rooms where the legislators are...