DavidLeonhardt

Zing! Times Asks Obama: "Are You a Socialist?"

Reporter Peter Baker defends the question from outcry from the Angry Left: "The point is not the label, per se, but the question of whether the times and the solutions under consideration ...

Bank Nationalization? No Worries

David Leonhardt can't understand why the Obama administration is so reluctant to bring it up: "...it is a bit odd to watch Barack Obama, who aspires to finally end the era of Reaganomics, spend ...

"The Upside of Paying More Taxes"

Staff writer and columnist David Leonhardt on the civilizing joys of higher tax rates: "Think of it this way: A tax increase isn't so much a barrier to a society becoming richer as it is a result ...

Are Autoworkers Really Making $73 an Hour? No, Says UAW & NYT...

...but Yes, says the Heritage Foundation and the automakers themselves.

Dear NY Times: U.S. Economy Overflows with Outliers

Free markets give unprecedented opportunities to many.

Neo-Liberal Timesman on Obama the "Fiscal Conservative"

David Leonhardt obsesses over income inequality and claims that "Relative to McCain...Obama does indeed look like a fiscal conservative."

Times Trumpets Poll Showing Americans Think US "On Wrong Track"

One question just added to the NYT/CBS News poll: "From what you know, how much do you think the cost of the war in Iraq has contributed to the U.S. economic problems - a lot, some, not much or ...

Linking Today's Illegal Immigration Opponents to Violent Racists of a Century Ago

From a picture caption: "Anti-Catholic - Burning of St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia, 1844. As immigration soared, so did nativist reaction."

Grimly Predicting a "Jarring End to the Pax Americana"

Kevin "Sad" Sack writes: "Now, Americans feel a loss of autonomy, in their own lives and in the nation. Their politics are driven by the powerlessness they feel to control their financial ...

Meet Hillary Clinton, Another Democratic "Populist"

Bill and Hillary join John Edwards in David Leonhardt's line of Democratic "populists" (not liberals).
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