DEBATING THE MIDDLE. If you haven’t yet, check out Dean Baker and Ruy Teixeira‘s contributions to the Rose–Mishel debate on the middle class. (There will be more next week.) Meanwhile, Jon Cohn has a piece today disputing Rose’s take on health care. And for all of you who can’t get enough of this stuff, it so happens that The Democratic Strategist has been hosting a very similar roundtable that’s highly worth reading.

–Sam Rosenfeld

Sam Rosenfeld, a former web editor for the Prospect, is visiting assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University, beginning in September.