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Last Updated: October 15, 2013

My Dartmouth colleague Russ Muirhead and I have proposed the following relatively simple compromise in an op-ed in Po...

Last Updated: October 12, 2013

What more can I say? A new Gallup Poll finds that a solid majority of Americans feel that the Republicans and Democr...

Last Updated: October 9, 2013

The Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago routinely polls an ideological diverse group of prominent e...

Last Updated: October 8, 2013

I have always said that a Centrist Party, or a group of independent legislators with centrist tendencies, would deriv...

Last Updated: October 1, 2013

I've been reading the same commentary as you have about President Obama's curious lack of leadership and Tea Party Re...

Last Updated: September 26, 2013

What do Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even the budget impasse have in common? They are all examples of how ...

Last Updated: September 18, 2013

The withdrawal of Larry Summers from consideration as Fed Chairman is part of a larger rift between Wall Street and t...

Last Updated: August 31, 2013

Some prominent and powerful Republican senators are facing primary challenges from their own right flank. According ...

Last Updated: August 28, 2013

This would almost be funny, if it weren't so sad and serious. A poll of Louisiana Republicans found that more blamed...