Candidates should focus more attention on issues that matter, like the president’s failure to address infrastructure crisis. That means sidestepping vapid questions about the candidates’ unusual friendships.
Election 2020
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The Miseducation of Mean Pete
Once the Rhodes Scholar version of Mister Rogers, Buttigieg has become the snarling incarnation of anti-left rage.
Posted inPolitics
Joe Biden’s Mysterious Claim That He Whipped Votes for the CFPB
Biden told Elizabeth Warren that he ‘got votes’ for her consumer agency creation. No one can remember the specifics.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Robots Aren’t Coming for Our Jobs, the Oligarchs Are
Automation is an unknown factor in the economy. Concentration is known.
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Debate Wrap-Up: The Candidates for Less Attack the Candidates for More
But here’s why Buttigieg and Klobuchar can’t win. Also: Andrew Yang, the trucker’s pal.
Posted inTAP
They’re All Populists, and Centrists Don’t Like ’Em
Today on TAP: The sloppiest word in journalism
Posted inAmerica and the World
The 2020 Foreign-Policy Primary
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden are staking out different territory.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bernie Goes Socialist
Or, at least, follows in the footsteps of Sweden’s social democrats
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Do Wall Street Democrats Prefer Trump to Warren?
As Elizabeth Warren vectors in on the Democratic nomination, corporate Democrats are in full panic mode, revealing their true colors.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mike Bloomberg Will Never Become President
But his fifth flirtation with a run may be the most offensive yet.
