PostPartisan Archive: Meyerson
Overpaid economists
If there were any question that mainstream economists will end up in the same circle of hell as Wall Street’s wizards, today’s “Breaking Views” column in the New York Times should dispel any lingering doubts. In the column, in...
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November 11, 2009; 2:17 PM ET |
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Bad night for billionaires
Republicans can claim shouting rights in Virginia and New Jersey, and the Democrats have picked up that furiously contested House seat in northern New York state (which gives the Democrats 49 House members and the Republicans two in America’s...
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November 4, 2009; 12:20 AM ET |
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Where's Our Nobel?
You will recall that Time magazine has occasionally given its “Person of the Year” award not to individuals but to collectives: Smart, Well-Coiffed Young People; Financiers With Conscience (given collectively because no individual financiers with conscience could actually be...
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October 9, 2009; 4:02 PM ET |
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Those Socialist Americans
A quarter of the American people (26 percent, to be exact), according to Friday morning’s New York Times/CBS News poll, believe that the health-care reform bills floating around Congress will create governmental death panels, while just 23 percent say...
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September 25, 2009; 3:35 PM ET |
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Against Radicalism
It was the speech he needed to give. Three months ago, absolutely, but better late -- a lot better late -- than never. In speaking to Congress and the American people Wednesday night, President Obama made the case he...
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September 9, 2009; 10:29 PM ET |
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The Republican Rankin File
Jeannette Rankin, the remarkable suffragist, civil libertarian and pacifist who represented Montana in the House of Representatives in 1917-1919 and again in 1941-1942, was one of 50 House members who voted against the declaration of war on Germany in...
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February 10, 2009; 7:45 PM ET |
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