Health care
Why do we need health care reform?, by Jonathan Alter
Health care reform flowchart, by Nick Beaudrot (via Paul Krugman)
Progress, not perfection, by Paul Begala
Tax reform’s lesson for health care reform, by Bill Bradley
Is there anything Obama could have done differently to avoid the current health care mess?, by Jonathan Cohn
Jonathan Cohn talks health care on The Colbert Report
How does the quality of U.S. health care compare internationally?, by Elizabeth Docteur and Robert Berenson
San Francisco’s public option that works, by William Dow, Arindrajit Dube, and Carrie Hoverman Colla
Trillion dollar health reform, $3 trillion in tax cuts, by Howard Gleckman
How American health care killed my father, by David Goldhill
Against giving up on the public option, by Ezra Klein
Can reconciliation work for health care reform?, by Ezra Klein
It’s not about the insurers, at least not totally, by Ezra Klein
The evolution of the public option, by Ezra Klein
The liberal revolt, by Ezra Klein
The two-bill strategy, by Ezra Klein
Real choice? It’s off limits in health bills, by David Leonhardt
Should fat people pay more for health insurance?, by David Leonhardt
Democrats weigh the calculus of public insurance, by Alec MacGillis
Your handy health care reform cheat sheet, by Alec MacGillis
Health reform: the fateful moment, by Theodore Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander
Myths and falsehoods about health care reform, by Media Matters
Curbing runaway health inflation, New York Times
Majority rule on health care reform, New York Times
The uninsured, New York Times
The public plan, New York Times
Why we need health care reform, by Barack Obama
A primer on the details of health care reform, by Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn
Co-op plan as health option muddies the debate, by Robert Pear and Gardiner Harris
Beware authoritative “inside Washington” sources who say the public option is dead, by Robert Reich
Five myths about health care around the world, by T.R. Reid
Financing health care reform, by Uwe Reinhardt
Lost in the shuffle: the overarching goals of health reform, by Uwe Reinhardt
Who needs the public option?, by Uwe Reinhardt
Status-quo anxiety, by James Surowiecki
A public option isn’t a curse, or a cure, by Richard Thaler
Change is tough, so liberals can’t just leave it to Obama, by Michael Tomasky
For many consumers, few insurance choices, by Anne Underwood
Eight protections for health care consumers, by Matthew Yglesias
Who needs a public option?, by Matthew Yglesias
Yesterday’s compromise is tomorrow’s triumph, by Matthew Yglesias
U.S. economy
Central bankers suggest rebound may have begun, by Edmund Andrews
How a little inflation could help a lot, by Tyler Cowen
Sketch of a talk on the history of macroeconomic thought since 1960, by Brad DeLong
Why aren’t we undergoing another Great Depression?, by Brad DeLong
Don’t let the stimulus lose its spark, by Robert H. Frank
An evaluation of the first 200 days of Obama economics, by Jeff Frankel
Overmighty finance levies a tithe on growth, by Benjamin Friedman
How central bankers’ jobs will change, by Krishna Guha
Averting the worst, by Paul Krugman
Till debt does its part, by Paul Krugman
For a second stimulus, by Robert Kuttner
$9 trillion in deficit? Maybe not, by Floyd Norris
America may need to find another financier, by Floyd Norris
Wall Street pay didn’t cause this crisis, by Floyd Norris
America’s exhausted paradigm, by Thomas Palley
Time to put sand in the wheels of the market, by Avinash Persaud
Your federal budget, in pictures, by Catherine Rampell
Why we need to regulate the banks sooner, not later, by Kenneth Rogoff
Is the stimulus working?, by Christina Romer
An international comparison of small business employment, by John Schmitt and Nathan Lane
An echo chamber of boom and bust, by Robert Shiller
A Tobin tax?, by Gillian Tett
Are macroeconomic models useful?, by Mark Thoma
Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being
Five things we can do to reduce poverty, by Scott Allard
Why the Obama administration will struggle to reduce poverty, by Scott Allard
Special report on poverty, The American Prospect
Regulate financial pay to reduce risk-taking, by Lucian Bebchuk
Getting smart on crime, by Charles Blow
What the right really thinks about inequality, by Jonathan Chait
For the unemployed, a day stacks up differently, by Amanda Cox, Shaun Carter, Kevin Quealy, and Amy Schoenfeld
Did welfare reform work for everyone? A look at young single mothers, by Mary Daly and Joyce Kwok (via Mark Thoma)
Prolonged aid to unemployed is running out, by Erik Eckholm
The distant mirror, by Timothy Egan
International trade, offshoring, and US wages, by Ann Harrison
The two-track economy emerging from the recession, by Simon Johnson
Rewarding bad actors, by Paul Krugman
Rise of the super-rich hits a wall, by David Leonhardt and Geraldine Fabrikant
Race and diversity in the age of Obama, by Orlando Patterson
Striking it richer: the evolution of top incomes in the United States, by Emmanuel Saez
Curb executive pay — the right way, by Paul Weinstein Jr.
Tribute to an effective public servant, by Matthew Yglesias
G.D.P. R.I.P., by Eric Zencey
Taxes
Why we won’t eliminate the deficit with corporate tax revenues, by Rosanne Altshuler
Obama renews vow of no middle-class tax increase, by Peter Baker
Obama’s pledge to tax only the rich can’t pay for everything, analysts say, by Jackie Calmes
Why Obama will have to raise taxes, by Clive Crook
How we won’t eliminate the deficit, by Bob Williams
The need for higher taxes, by Matthew Yglesias
Education
Long-term effects of investments in universal early education, by Elizabeth Cascio
Dangling money, Obama pushes states to shift on education, by Sam Dillon
At community college, a focus on jobs, by Steven Greenhouse
Housing
Less house for your money, Gene Expression
Globalization
World trade, The Economist
U.S. politics
The GOP’s misplaced rage, by Bruce Bartlett
Bipartisanship redux, by Nicholas Beaudrot
The great gradualist, by David Brooks
Another such victory and we are undone, by Brad DeLong
Town halls by invitation, by James Fishkin
Rich people are more likely to be Republican but not more likely to be conservative, by Andrew Gelman
The divergence of the intellectual upper class, by Andrew Gelman
Stories and stats: the truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers, by Andrew Gelman and John Sides
The rise of the 60-vote Senate, by Greg Koger
All the president’s zombies, by Paul Krugman
Missing Richard Nixon, by Paul Krugman
The public option as a signal, by Paul Krugman
Did the founders intend for small states to wield outsize power in the Senate?, by Alex MacGillis
Does the stock market affect presidential approval ratings?, by Catherine Rampell
Left without labor, by Mark Schmitt
The defeat of the Clinton health care plan and the 1994 elections, by John Sides
The history of the reconciliation process, by Matthew Yglesias
Abroad
Germany: an SPD-Left alliance?, by Bertrand Benoit
Ireland’s economic crisis, by John Murray Brown
Iran: the tragedy and the future, by Roger Cohen
Is it America or Europe which is overrated?, by Tyler Cowen
Japan’s fiscal frailty, by Mure Dickie
Can Germany wean itself from export dependence?, The Economist
Think Parisians are rude? It’s all a big misunderstanding, by Pauline Harris and Simon Kuper
Rape of the Congo, by Adam Hochschild
Saving the world’s women, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Devolution in Spain, by Victor Mallet
Japan’s opposition wins a landslide, New York Times
New restrictions on French bankers’ bonuses, New York Times
Miscellaneous
G.I. Jane breaks the combat barrier, by Lizette Alvarez
American Psychological Association rejects gay “therapy”, Associated Press
Observational detectives, by Ian Ayres
Jerry Cohen: a personal appreciation, by Chris Bertram
U.S. population distribution by age, 1950 to 2050, Calculated Risk
Religion is good for you, by Chris Dillow
Do people still have fewer children as they get richer?, The Economist
Facebook exodus, by Virginia Heffernan
For today’s graduate, just one word: statistics, by Steve Lohr
Breakfast can wait; the day’s first stop is online, by Brad Stone
Hawaii: happily a state, forever an island, by Paul Theroux
How to publish a scientific comment in 1 2 3 easy steps, by Rick Trebino
Anti-public intellectuals, or public anti-intellectuals?, by Justin Wolfers