Policy

Data Thought for the Day

October 16, 2014 Data

Since the Obama election, and particularly the re-election, politicians have gained a deepening appreciation of the use of data for politics – for tactics, targeting and personalization. It’s just a matter of time – and we can accelerate that time – before they have the same appreciation of using data for governing – including both […]

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Consolidating the Gains in Health Coverage

November 7, 2012 Health Insurance

Across much of the political spectrum and even among some Republicans, I suspect that there will be at least one shared emotion: relief that a very long election campaign is over. One key implication is that there’s now no question that we will move ahead with implementation of the Affordable Care Act, “Obamacare.” There may […]

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The Presidential Election – Women and Men and the Distribution of Power

October 18, 2012 Election

As I’ll be on the West Coast election week, I voted yesterday. I voted to re-elect President Obama. Those who know me or who don’t, but who read what I write here or on Twitter, certainly won’t be surprised. But if all you know is my fiscal conservatism and my inclinations towards economics, you might […]

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Life Amongst the 47 Percent

September 19, 2012 Economics

Mac McClelland, of Mother Jones, visits her father, a college friend, and others in Ohio’s War on the Middle Class, “Wherein I go home, watch public servants get axed, visit the warehouse of unbearable sorrow, hang with jobless thirty somethings living in abandoned homes, and consider whether my generation is flat-out screwed.” I’d forgotten that […]

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Wonks and Hacks

September 6, 2012 Policy

Bill Clinton’s speech last night brought it all back. Blending politics and policy, he put the lie to the unfortunate, unnatural and danger of their separation. This is likely to be a setup for a lengthy post. Stay tuned. Anyway, I posted Wonks and Hacks in March, 2004. Here it is in full. Bruce Reed, […]

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