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Refinery Murder Mystery

The chair of Sunoco’s board of directors is a refinery assassin. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, who will remain Sunoco chair until May, tried to kill off a Shell refinery in Bakersfield, Calif., when she was CEO at Shell Oil Products. At Sunoco, where she was CEO until March...

The Problem With Economists

... is separation from reality caused by internalizing decades of endlessly repeated right-wing propaganda. This time it shows up in a discussion of the effect of top tax rates by Christina Romer. I hate to pick on Romer again, but... In the New York Times' Economic...

The offer is still on the table

This behind the scenes look at the Grand Bargain doesn't change my original impression of the negotiations, but it does lend some details that actually make it worse than I thought: A lot of red ink, the Republicans thought. But the major elements of a bargain seemed...

Why Democrats Should Oppose Parent Trigger Laws

Last week in Florida there was an important victory for progressive Democrats that not many Democrats know about. Even worse, most Democrats may not even be aware why this was a victory. The important win was generated by a coalition of parent groups, schoolteachers,...

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