30 July 2015

Unlike Jeb Bush, John Kasich is trying something different

The idea that Jeb Bush — grandson of a senator, son of a president, brother of a president, a man who has spent his entire life swaddled in the embrace of power and influence — is some kind of outsider who because he isn't tainted by Washington's ways can come in and clean up the system is inherently absurd.

Paul Waldman



Pushing back on “quarterly capitalism” and incentivizing more investment

Jared Bernstein



16 July 2015

This is a great point about Iran's official anti-Americanism

Steve Coll:
The United States faces, in the Middle East, many Sunni Arab countries with elites that are pro-American and populations that are deeply hostile, whereas in Iran it faces elites that are mostly hostile — or require hostility to maintain their power — and a population that is really ready for change.
In other words, America's Middle Eastern allies are mostly countries where authoritarian rulers impose deeply unpopular pro-American policies. Our greatest enemy is a country where authoritarian rulers impose unpopular anti-American policies. It doesn't sound like a situation that's particularly stable, either for us or for the Middle East itself, and indeed it's not.

Max Fisher



The End of the 2016 Election Is Closer Than You Think

Doug Sosnik