Wednesday, October 7, 2015

We have little evidence that our approach is effective, but at least it's inhumane -- UPDATED

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Children deserve an opportunity to play. If you deny them that opportunity, you'd better have a damned good reason. This excellent art...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Three from Marketplace, presented almost without comment

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I'm trying to prioritize my blogging, both in terms of reducing total time and focusing on finishing up some of the massive backlog in t...
Monday, October 5, 2015

New York Times definition of the week: "full-fledged investigation" = one Google search UPDATED

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Brad DeLong has a very good overview of the ethical train wreck surrounding the New York Times review of Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger b...
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Occam's Razor

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This is Joseph. I know Mark is often lukewarm about Kevin Drum.  But he has been asking some pretty good questions lately, and I think thi...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Ken Levine shows us how NBC shows get on the air

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 A rocket scientist I know once observed the fundamental similarity between LA's two defining industries: entertainment and aerosp...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Daraprim story

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This is Joseph. The drug Daraprim jumped in it's cost from $13.55 a pill to $750 per pill after it was purchased by a new company: ...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Cliches so hoary it hurts to type them

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From Space.com "Star Trek: Renegades," the 90-minute first installment of a planned Internet series, was released on YouTube Mon...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Revisiting Nate Cohn -- Scott Walker edition

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I was going back and forth on whether or not to revisit this critique of the New York Times' Nate Cohn in the wake of the Walker implos...
Monday, September 28, 2015

The magic of markets

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This is Joseph Dean Dad on buying shares in students : Of course, Salerno elides entirely issues of equity and inclusion.  For example, ...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Papering the house -- 21st Century style

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Equal parts interesting and annoying. This another one of those stories where the reporters (and possibly founders)  are so fixated on buzz...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Under our radar

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This is Joseph Mike Konczal has been quietly doing some great analysis about student loans and their implications for financing higher edu...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Disability in the United States

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This is Joseph. The New York times had a very nice article on social security disability insurance .  Of especial note were: If people o...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Jonathan Chait is strongly (but selectively) offended by Islamophobia

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Jonathan Chait recently took up the subject of religious bigotry in the GOP making his points with characteristic forcefulness: How Conser...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Dynamic scoring

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This is Joseph. I have noticed this issue in the data on economic growth for a while, as a general impression.  But Robert Waldman has a p...
Friday, September 18, 2015

A natural experiment in journalistic objectivity (or at least a chance to draw a sharp comparison)

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Discussions of objectivity in the mainstream (as opposed to partisan) press generally focus on the ideological and start with the assumption...