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By Neil the Ethical Werewolf One reason why it costs so much to buy health insurance as a individual is because of a problem that economists call “adverse selection.” Adverse selection occurs when people on one side of a market have better information than people on the other side. Then the people with less information […]

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper Ezra put out the call for posts on Indian Genocide Columbus Day, and I had something on my mind … The Washington Post ran one of those sweet little puff pieces about what politicians are really like this morning. It read a lot like those interviews in Entertainment Weekly […]

By the way, don’t forget to visit the newly revamped, remodeled, and revitalized Daily Pepper. You’ll love it. As for me, I’ve got Indian Genocide Columbus Day off, so I light posting from me. Maybe the Weekenders will be kind enough to contribute.

By Ezra Over at The Washington Monthly’s place, Jacob Hacker and and Paul Pierson are doing the guest-blogger thing, explaining and working through ideas from Off Center. Should be fun. But while they’re around, I’d like to see them reexamine their premise a bit. While the continued electoral success of ideological extremists is a bit […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf The Harriet Miers circus has made me wonder how conservative John Roberts really is. The more I learn about Miers, the more I think about whether Bush really shares any of the goals of the theocrats and institutional conservatives who get all excited about Scalia. A lot of my belief […]

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper Now that I have your attention, I’d like to make an announcement. Arnold, you’d better run, because the Pepper Posse is coming after you. That’s right – a Pepper Posse. As of tomorrow, the Daily Pepper will become a group blog, featuring the writing of Poverty Barn and Pell-Mell. […]

By Ezra Everybody should read this post of Kevin’s. Everybody. And, while you ingest it, think about this: in other countries, the idea that your “insurance” even can be denied simply doesn’t exist. Forget the circumstances, for get disasters, you don’t even have clerical errors. Whether you’re displaced, traveling, or just ill, when you enter […]

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math The indominable Oliver Willis says that increasing the perception that Democrats “stand for something” is just a matter of not flitting from issue to issue. There’s something to that; both the Kerry and Gore campaigns did a lot of flitting. So, less of that, please. I do want […]

By Ezra Best way to start my piece on this is with one of my favorite Onion articles: “The Republican party—the party of industrial mega-capitalists, corporate financiers, power brokers, and the moneyed elite—would like to thank the undereducated rural poor, the struggling blue-collar workers in Middle America, and the God-fearing underpriviledged minorities who voted George […]