Joseph Lawler

With yet another video of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie displaying some impressive rhetoric starting to make the rounds, I…

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, at a town hall meeting yesterday: Jim Geraghty:  It would probably not be best for…

Today Princeton economist and former vice president of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Blinder has an op-ed in the WSJ, with…

Yesterday the CFTC approved futures contracts on box office receipts for movies. Although these derivatives make it legal for now for…

The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein:  In an effort to blunt the impact of [Citizens United], House Democrats developed the DISCLOSE…

This morning’s New York Times report on the discovery of “$1 trillion” in mineral deposits is not easy to interpret. It’s certainly…

E21, the new think thank founded by Bill Kristol and Keith Hennessy, has an editorial today on the Democrats’ “Jobs…

One key question in considering demand-side economic policies, such as fiscal stimulus and other deficit spending, is whether the elevated…

Today the Congressional Oversight Panel released a new report on the fall 2008 bailout of AIG, and its findings are…

The cover story for the latest Weekly Standard is Andrew Ferguson’s profile of Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, which, both merely…