I finally felt the need to write a PPR-style response to this DP opinion piece, because…well, it’s just so inaccurate. Let’s dive right in. The Woes of Debt-to-GDP Ratios First, debt-to-GDP ratios. These are all the rage nowadays because Reinhart-Rogoff supposedly proved that countries that pass the 90% mark have reached some dire point-of-no-return. That’s not entirely true. Yale’s Robert [...]
Ron Haskins is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families, and Budgeting for National Priorities. He was a longtime welfare policy advisor to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, and he played a pivotal role in drafting the 1996 Welfare Reform law. After his service in [...]
Christopher Lu is President Obama’s Cabinet Secretary, co-chair of the Executive Office of the President, and co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He previously served as executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project; a legislative director and chief of staff to then-Senator Obama; and deputy chief counsel to the Democrats on the House Oversight [...]
Earlier this summer, in Arizona v. United States, Justice Scalia openly criticized the President’s decision to enact the DREAM Act through executive order, allowing illegal immigrants who had entered the U.S. as children and who had in the meantime enrolled in or graduated high school or served in the armed forces to remain in the country. Scalia then framed the [...]
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson Princeton University Press, 2012, $24.95 Gutmann and Thompson begin their second chapter with an interview between John Boehner and Lesley Stahl, in which the Speaker and Stahl play hot-potato with the word “compromise:” Stahl: Why won’t you say [compromise]—you’re afraid of the [...]
S. 132: The Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011 would establish much-needed national forensic science standards. It would allow the Department of Justice to certify forensic science labs and practitioners. It would give the DOJ authority to identify what actually qualifies as “forensic science” and establish standards regarding experts, testimony, and use of evidence. Of course, the [...]
Interview by John Cheo and Michael Soyfer Brooke Gladstone managing editor and co-host of NPR’s and WNYC’s On the Media, has a long history with public radio. After working in print media, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and became senior editor of All Things Considered in 1989. In 1991, she spent a year at Stanford University as [...]
Rush Limbaugh got into deep trouble this week when he essentially stole an old Saturday Night Live sketch. “Sandra Fluke, you ignorant slut!” Fluke really should have thought twice before painting her face to disgrace herself before House Democrats. Indeed, she was supposed to appear at Darrell Issa’s sausage-fest hearing on women’s contraceptive-coverage, at which only men spoke. Several committee members walked out [...]
It can be a bit difficult to keep track of what the president proposed in his SOTU policy-wise, particularly when a president proposes as many daring policies as Obama did. Wonkblog extracted the juicy, policy bits, trimmed the fat and produced this. But, let’s simplify things even further. Here’s a list! No tax deductions for outsourcing Use that money for moving [...]
Agent Brian Terry died last December. Investigators soon traced the weapons to a little-known ATF operation called “Operation Fast and Furious,” which was part of a larger program called “Project Gunrunner.” ATF describes this initiative as “a comprehensive strategy to reduce…violent crime associated with Mexican criminal organizations…by preventing these organizations from unlawfully acquiring and trafficking firearms and explosives.” They do [...]
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