Blog Profile / The New Republic - Jonathan Chait
| URL : | http://www.tnr.com/blogs/jonathan-chait | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 6977 | |
| Posts / Week: | 30.7 | |
| Archived Since: | February 11, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Leaving TNR
I don?t know how to say goodbye to a magazine that?s been by home since I was a 23 year old intern one year out of college, where I?ve made some of the best friends in my life, and whose identity has become almost indistinct from my own. Show More Summary
Rick Perry's Temporary Budget Sanity
The normal way to measure changes in the scope of taxes or spending is to account for changes in the size of population and the value of the currency. If the government creates a program to, say, give free lunches to poor schoolchildren,...Show More Summary
Obama Pulls Off The Impossible
He proposes a jobs plan that wins the approval of Paul Krugman and David Brooks. Feel the love!
What Will Obama's Speech Accomplish?
It always seemed clear to me, though it has not seemed clear to many liberals, that the exquisite care President Obama takes to establish his reasonableness and moderation is the first step of a two-step process. Having disarmed theShow More Summary
Factchecker: Obama's Plan Isn't Paid For If Congress Refuses To Pay For It
Before I get to commenting on President Obama's speech tonight, I should note this ridiculous "fact check" piece by the Associated Press: President Barack Obama's promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests...Show More Summary
Who Counts as a 'Person'? Mississippi Decides This November
[Guest Post by Simon van Zuylen-Wood] On November 8 Mississippians will vote by popular referendum to legally define the beginning of a person’s life “at conception.” Until now, there was a reasonable doubt that the pro-life-backed “personhood...Show More Summary
Still Not Done Arguing Yet
My plan is to stay here blogging the next couple of days, and since it's my last couple of days at TNR, I may as well go out in a blaze of hippie-punching. Democratic message consultant Drew Westen, whose New York Times crie de coeur...Show More Summary
How Rick Perry Won the Debate
The most intellectually interesting portion of tonight's Republican presidential debate occurred in its opening moments, when Rick Perry and Mitt Romney sparred over their states’ record of job creation. Perry cited his states record of creating jobs. Show More Summary
I'm Not Done Arguing Yet
My piece in the New York Times magazine last weekend about President Obama and the left kicked up a lot of debate. The thesis was that the left's criticisms that Obama failed to secure enough stimulus. Let me address a couple objections I've seen. Show More Summary
Ask Mister Math Person
Dave Barry had a running bit called "Ask Mister Language Person," in which he would dispense grammatical advice as if the rules of grammar were the common uses of the language rather than the real ones. So, for instance, he would dispense...Show More Summary
Obama's Katrina Was Also Boehner's Katrina
Gerald Seib pinpoints the cause of President Obama's summer polling collapse: To grasp the importance of the summer's debt negotiations—which produced a plan to cut the federal deficit by at least $2.1 trillion over the next decade just...Show More Summary
Obama's Electoral Paradox
Two new public polls out this morning, from NBC/WSJ and the Washington Post, illustrate the curious nature of President Obama's electoral standing. The top-line number is completely abysmal. Obama's approval rating sits in the low 40s,...Show More Summary
Romney Death Watch
Via Alexander Burns, a new poll has him trailing in Nevada, a heavily Mormon state previously viewed as a firewall: Magellan Strategies today released the results of an autodial survey of 631 likely 2012 Nevada Republican Presidential caucus attendees. Show More Summary
Obama vs. The Left on Stimulus
I have a column in this weekend's New York Times magazine arguing that the criticism that Obama did too little on the economy is overstated and counterhistorical: President Obama underestimated the depth of the crisis in 2009 and left himself with bad options in the event the economy failed to recover as quickly as he hoped. Show More Summary
Appointments And The Evolving Constitutional Crisis
When a politician writes an op-ed, it's usually death. Barney Frank, on the other hand, is unusually interesting for an elected official, and his op-ed today is worth your time:
[Richard] Cordray is just the latest capable, dedicated public servant to fall victim to a Republican mugging. Show More Summary
Republicans And The Immigration Trap
The Republican Party desperately needs to change its image among Latinos, who remain a bulwark of strength for the Democrats as as their numbers collapse among whites. But conservatives keep trying to force their candidates to talk tough...Show More Summary
How Obama's Economic Plan Defines The Political Fight
The August jobs report casts in sharper relief the Obama administration's proposal next week to boost the economy. As I've argued before, this is a political move. House Republicans have neither the political nor the ideological incentive to adopt any new expansionary fiscal policy. Show More Summary
Is Obama's Campaign Deluded?
Michael Scherer, via Mike Allen, reports that the White House is listening to cheerful historical analogies: In June,... White House chief of staff Bill Daley arranged a secret retreat for his senior team at Fort McNair... Historian Michael Beschloss went along as a guest speaker to help answer the one question on everyone’s mind: How does a U.S. Show More Summary
Shelby Steele's Latest Embarrassment
Shelby Steele today has an extremely amusing broadside against President Obama. The general flavor is captured well in its opening: If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some...Show More Summary
Rick Perry's Smart Court Reform
Rick Perry's platform may consist of great heaps of terrifying reactionary obscurantism, but it also features a couple nice little dollops of reassuring liberal reform. Here's one of them:
One solution the governor embraces is to end...Show More Summary