Joseph Lawler

Got $584,000? In the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC, that’ll get you this 3 bedroom/3.5 bath townhouse: In Detroit, it…

Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier is the dean of Harvard Medical Schoo. As such, he resides in the tallest Ivory Tower,…

UPDATED 3:15, November 18 The Hill‘s Michael O’Brien reports that Diana DeGette (D-CO), co-chairwoman of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, while…

…but only when the “health care” is abortion. From a truly insincere Politico article: Added Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.): “For…

Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser took issue with an argument I made in Saturday’s Politico, and his remarks were parroted by…

I’ve invented a game where first you take what Pres. Obama wrote about the dire consequences without his stimulus: And…

Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report contains the unwelcome news that unemployment has, as expected, crept up into the…

As you may have heard, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine is about to have a lot more time on his…

Reihan Salam bemoans Paul Krugman’s latest attack on a right-ish economist, this time Krugman’s fellow Nobelist Edmund Phelps. [Krugman] brings…

USAToday has a good list of shady stimulus accounting reports: $15,355 “creating or saving” 108 police jobs in Connecticut. $2…