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Could We Just Bury the Washington Post Now?

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? I mean, it hasn't even crashed and burned. It's dead and rotted: a source of smell and disease. Matthew Yglesias >Matthew Yglesias: Fred Hiatt Wants The Washington Post to Go Out of Business: FWhat other explanation could there be for deciding that he wants to run an op-ed by Sarah Palin about how Obama should “boycott”...

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Why YOU Can't Have Medicare

There is one and only one reason YOU can't have Medicare: to preserve the huge checks for CEOs of giant health insurance companies. That is how our country works now. Matthew Yglesias サ The New Health Care Deal [[ This is a content summary only. Visit Seeing the Forest at http://seeingtheforest.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Economic Incentives and the Medicare Buy-In

The prospect of expanding Medicare in place of a public option has led to discussion of how this is likely to be received. Matthew Yglesias writes: Medicare doesn’t pay hospitals and doctors as much as private insurance does. Hospitals and doctors don’t like that. They want to get paid more. Which is understandable. In addition to [...]

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The Senate without the filibuster

I'm sympathetic to the case that Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias (among others) have been making against the institutionalization of the filibuster in the Senate, but the debate has often felt highly abstract. Other than a brief spate of posts...

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What is Ben Bernanke Thinking?

Matthew Yglesias is puzzled: >Matthew Yglesias: Bernanke Used to Know What to Do: Even though Ben Bernanke is a conservative Republican Bush appointee, and even though the Fed mishandled a lot of things before the Bear Stears meltdown and Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, a lot of people I know were reasonably glad he was Fed chair as the country headed into major economic...

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Great Last and First Lines

The American Book Review has a list of the "100 Best Last Lines from Novels" (PDF). Obviously, this means some spoilers, but cautious browsing can avoid that. Their list of the "100 Best First Lines from Novels" holds no such perils. This comes via TBogg (in turn from Matthew Yglesias, whose commenters make other suggestions). TBogg has a post soliciting suggestions...

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Obama's Reflex Sex-Work Answer Limits Opportunities to Find Effective Answers

Wow, the twittersphere was just all aflutter about some college student asking the President if he’d considered legalizing prostitution and/or drugs as a way to stimulate the economy. That was, what, three days ago and it’s still getting retweeted. Anyway, I thought Matthew Yglesias put the reaction nicely in perspective (emphasis mine.) I think it’s obvious you can’t...

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Blue Cross Blue Shield working covertly to kill healthcare reform

Matthew Yglesias: There’s a perception out there that the Obama administration’s health reform drive is operating hand-in-glove with industry players. You see a left-wing version of this critique from the “public option or nothing” crowd and a right-wing version in things like Tim Carney’s Obamanomics book. And certainly this legislation is friendlier to...

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Jamison Foser: The WaPo's train-wreck of an economy Q & A

... That was Ahrens entire response: "Back atcha." What was that even supposed to mean? As Matthew Yglesias put it , it was an " embarrassing exchange between The Washington Post's readers and a badly overmatched Washington Post financial reporter, who doesn't seem to know anything about tax policy, or how to admit you're wrong, or how to just confess ignorance of an issue."...

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The Trained Idiocy of the Washington Press Corps

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? In America today to actually know something about the world, public policy, or government disqualifies you from covering the White House for a major media organization. Thus what they produce is worse than uniformative: it is positively destructive. Matthew Yglesias is on the beat: >Matthew Yglesias: Information Matters:...

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Why the Pundits Don’t Like the New Newsweek

... much credit, since it’s basically a rehash of a recent Ross Douthat column in The New York Times . Matthew Yglesias, a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, agrees , writing that Meacham’s column “offers us an example of the problems with a journalism model in which it’s more important for pundits to be interesting and buzzworthy than to say something true and informative.”...

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Why Does Lockheed Spend Money on Think Tanks?

Andrew “Abu Muqawama” Exum of the Center for a New American Security was kind enough to come out of blogging retirement to respond to my post — and Matthew Yglesias’ follow-on — about think tanks and their role in selling the Afghanistan surge. Writes Exum: “If he [Yglesias] thinks this blogger — or anyone else [...]

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rogue hypnotists foiled

... neglect to mention which state. On The Quick and the Ed, hat tip Marginal Revolution , hat tip Matthew Yglesias . (Hard to believe I have any readers who read neither MR nor MY, but could naturally not pass up the chance of a post on rogue hypnotists.)

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More on the Ghost Of Willie Sutton

As one Agonist commenter notes: the richest one percent of Americans own more than the bottom ninety percent. That's a big pool of money to balance our budgets with in my book. But, as Matthew Yglesias notes, Ben Bernanke's plans for job growth are to "do nothing:" at his hearings either Bernanke might publicly discuss his determination to do more to lower the unemployment...

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Common sense, Monty Hall and the CRU emails

... ideas; William Jennings Bryan used it that way in denouncing Darwinian evolution. In response, Matthew Yglesias concurred that common sense tends to be an extremely poor guide to technical issues. It’s common sense that heavy objects fall faster than light ones, and there’s absolutely nothing commonsensical about the correct answer to the Monty Hall Problem . Coincidentally...