To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate: As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis. We are well aware of the difficulty of the current financial situation and we  Read more »

Barbara Quint, a very cool woman who writes for one of my employer’s publications, has written great article about NARA – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – will NOT be making a new archive/snapshot of government websites in 2009 the way they did in 2001 and 2005 after the new Presidential terms began.

Last night’s State of the Union address, G.W. Bush’s last, really illustrates how our president will leave office with more of a whimper than a bang.  There was was a surprising amount of self-congratulatory bullshit considering how very little there is for him to take pride in at this point.  Even his claim of success  Read more »

The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. – By Dahlia Lithwick The Bush administration continues to limit our basic freedoms, conceal its own worst behavior, and insist that it does all this in order to make us more free. In that spirit, it seemed an opportune moment to commemorate the administration’s worst legal  Read more »

I used to think that deposing Saddam Hussein was worth it, but after listening to the people tortured and forced into exile by sectarian and anti-coalition factions, I have my doubts.  You can hear an interview with Ahlam al Goubori, an Iraqi mother of three who was kidnapped and tortured for helping the American establishment  Read more »