Outside the Beltway

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

Oh, FFS.

A very strange approach to talent management.

Now, we’re just haggling over price.

Not of governance.

Already-high rates have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

The future Supreme Court Justices had a lifelong relationship.

Lee Siegel takes to the NYT to explain “Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans.”

The return of a really bad idea.

The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.

The GOP (and our politics in general) will not be healed until there is an honest assessment of what government is (and is not).

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

David Frum begins a withering review for The Daily Beast, “Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 is an important book that will have large influence. It is unfortunately not a good book.”

The speech did exactly what it was supposed to do: kick off Obama’s re-election campaign while disguised as a call for unity.

American has real economic and social problems. But the solution in on Capitol Hill, not Wall Street.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars has endorsed Ron Klein, who never served a day in uniform, over retired LTC Allen West, a decorated veteran of several foreign wars. Is this an outrage?

America may be the land of opportunity but it helps to have a head start in the rat race.