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Paul Krugman in Despair
Paul Krugman is in despair. Why should I care? When some of us were writing about the coming recession 14 months ago, Krugman was oblivious, saying "it's unlikely that America will experience a recession as severe as that in, say,...
Paul Krugman is Confused
Hillary Clinton's most eloquent partisan, Paul Krugman says he's "confused by the Obama campaign. With Senator Clinton as the nominee, the coming election campaign is simple--"return with me now to the great days of the first Clinton Administration." Democrats can...
Losing Paul Krugman
It's a dreary Friday in Washington, even drearier because I no longer have Paul Krugman's column to brighten my weekend. I guess brighten is the wrong word. Krugman never made me especially happy. But he did stimulate me and helped...
JB on PK vs BHO
Just about everything Paul Krugman says resonates deeply with me, so I was surprised by his less than positive take on Barack Obama’s recent speech wherein the candidate laid out his plans for dealing with both the mortgage meltdown and...
Paul Krugman's Hypocrisy
Paul Krugman has been a Clinton Restorationist-- a big Hillary supporter and Obama's fiercest critic in the progressive punditocracy. So today he writes a very good piece laying out the regulatory disasters that led to our current economic crisis. He...
Paul Krugman's Cheap Shot
In an article in today's New York Times, Paul Krugman takes a cheap shot at Barack Obama and his campaign, all in a piece allegedly aimed at expressing concern about the level of unnecessary bitterness being spread in the Democratic...
Clinton and Obama on Healthcare: Mandates Mean Unity
Should you care about the flap over healthcare “mandates”? Does it really tell us anything about whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is more likely to deliver healthcare reform? In yesterday’s New York Times, Paul Krugman said “Yes.” He pointed...
The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future
It is certain that the Clintons' thousands of friends are cringing, turning away their attention out of sheer shame, grimacing, as they read the former President's derogatory dismissal of Obama's landslide victory as no different than Jesse Jackson's win there....
Role Reversal
The narrative of the 2007 Democratic presidential campaign was this: Hillary Clinton declared her inevitability and focussed on the general election, whereas Barack Obama and John Edwards challenged her ownership of core Democratic constituencies that typically dominate primary voting. But...
Can There Be A Decent Right?
There is a fascinating debate that has broken out, mostly among liberals, about the nature of the current conservative movement. On one side are those who believe that there's something distinctively awful about this decadent late stage of conservatism, from...
The Price of Popularity
The Price of PopularityPaul Krugman warns about the mounting attention Democrats are getting from big ticket donors in yesterday's New York Times (echoed last week in Slate). His thesis is simple: as the Democrats solidify their popularity for this November...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Another Good Journalist Lost, Along With The Wall Street Journal
Stepping lightly into his grave as an American writer in the grand cemetery he and other well-known journalists have designed for the American republic, TIME's Eric Pooley seems as ecstatic as a jihadist ascending to another world. It's frighteningly instructive...
Who are the Obamans?
2008 is closer than it appears, and Obama's position as the "exciting unknown quantity" of the race has been confirmed by this morning's poll numbers which show him whacking 10% out of Hillary's support, plus bits and pieces out of...
