Health care
House and Senate bills reduce the deficit, slow health care costs, and include realistic Medicare savings, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Don’t kill the bill, continued, by Jonathan Cohn
What can families actually afford?, by Jonathan Cohn
The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?, by Atul Gawande
Why I still believe in this bill, by Jacob Hacker
Five cost controls in the Senate health-care bill, by Ezra Klein
The death of the public option, by Ezra Klein
The importance of the individual mandate, by Ezra Klein
Health reform: thank the Club for Growth, by Paul Krugman
Pass the bill, by Paul Krugman
Tidings of comfort, by Paul Krugman
If health reform fails, America’s innovation gap will grow, by David Leonhardt
Defend and demand: the progressive way forward, by Theda Skocpol
Why progressives should support a Democratic compromise, by Paul Starr
Fifth wheel, by James Surowiecki
Reasons not to kill the Senate bill, by Igor Volsky
Why I prefer French health care, by Matt Welch (via Jeff Weintraub)
Drop the mandate?, by Matthew Yglesias
Health reform will save people money, by Matthew Yglesias
The success of the public option campaign, by Matthew Yglesias
Environment
Bjorn Lomborg and Pual Krugman debate policies to address climate change
Getting warmer, The Economist
One accord, yet discord, by Fiona Harvey, Ed Crooks, and Andrew Ward
An affordable truth, by Paul Krugman
Unhelpful Hansen, by Paul Krugman
What you need to know following the Copenhagen climate summit, by Andrew Light, Daniel Weiss, and Rebecca Lefton
Evidence of a warming planet, New York Times
In face of skeptics, experts affirm climate peril, by Andrew Revkin and John Broder
Why Copenhagen must be the end of the beginning, by Martin Wolf
U.S. economy
The fairness of financial rescue, by Brad DeLong
Ten ways to move the budget back to a sustainable path, by Jeffrey Frankel
Age of diminished expectations, by Paul Krugman
Bernanke’s unfinished mission, by Paul Krugman
Is criticism of the Bernanke Fed justified?, by Mark Thoma
Will economists ever learn?, by Mark Thoma
Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being
Inequality: a problem?, by Bruce Bartlett
Bankers had cashed in before the music stopped, by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Holger Spamann
Workforce Investment Act reauthorization, by Gordon Berlin (via Shawn Fremstad)
Battered by the storm, by Deepak Bhargava et al
Obama sets plan to spur job creation, by Jackie Calmes
Are the naughties the best decade ever?, by Tyler Cowen
American jobs plan, Economic Policy Institute
The next war on poverty, by Peter Edelman
Why welfare reform has failed, by Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich
Men without jobs, by Justin Fox
Economic growth and convergence, by Stephen Gordon
If billionaires don’t feel guilty about walking away from their debts, should homeowners?, by Daniel Gross
Yes, inequality really is getting a lot worse, by Zubin Jelveh
The big zero, by Paul Krugman
Poll reveals depth and trauma of joblessness in U.S., by Michael Luo and Megan Thee-Brenan
Short-time work carries long-term consequences, by Stanley Pignal and Daniel Schafer
“Unbanked” America, by Catherine Rampell
Worrisome thoughts on the way to the jobs summit, by Robert Reich
Making job creation a priority, by Christina Romer (via Mark Thoma)
A way to share in a nation’s growth, by Robert Shiller
The administration’s job creation proposal is inadequate, by Mark Thoma
The fed can help, but fiscal policy is the key to job creation, by Mark Thoma
Labor data show a surge in hiring of temp workers, by Louis Uchitelle
The squeeze before the storm, by Edward Wolff
Taxes
America’s fiscal deficit, The Economist
Governments differ dramatically in how they tax, The Economist
How to run up a deficit, without fear, by Robert H. Frank
Many see the VAT option as a cure for deficits, by Catherine Rampell
U.S. income tax not progressive at high end, by Martin Sullivan (via Catherine Rampell)
Should taxes be progressive?, by Mark Thoma
Education
Schools that beat the odds, by Harry Brighouse
Are our colleges teaching students well?, by Kevin Carney
Teachers score higher than other professionals in well-being, Gallup
Cities
What makes cities great, by Edward Glaeser
Green cities, by Matthew Kahn
The Detroit project, by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley
U.S. politics
After health care, we need Senate reform, by Ezra Klein
Seven stories Politico fears, by Ezra Klein
A dangerous dysfunction, by Paul Krugman
The Senate without the filibuster, by Brendan Nyhan
Three myths about political independents, by John Sides
What have we learned from the health care debate?, by John Sides
What we don’t know about polarization, by John Sides
Abroad
The economic crisis has revealed the failings of global organisations, by Alan Beattie
The familiar road to failure in Afghanistan, by Rodric Braithwaite
In Chile, many are optimistic that prosperity is coming, by Juan Forero
The ascent, and fall, of Dubai, by Edward Glaeser
Is “growth with equity” getting old?, by Duncan Green
The state of the war in Afghanistan, New York Times
Countries in misery, by Floyd Norris
What works in devleopment?, Dani Rodrik, Lant Pritchett, and others
Obama adds troops, but maps exit plan, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Helene Cooper
Trade policy lessons from Mexico under NAFTA, by Eduardo Zepeda, Timothy A. Wise, and Kevin P. Gallagher
Miscelleneous
Notes on a class, by Harry Brighouse
Distilling famous thinkers, by Tyler Cowen
What are the odds that the best chess player in the world has never played chess?, by Tyler Cowen
Paul Samuelson, 1915-2009, by Avinash Dixit
The death of the boring blog post, by Paddy Donnelly
Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the end of the blockbuster, The Economist
Getting rid of academic journals or changing the review system?, by Andrew Gelman
Remembering Paul Samuelson, who forever fused economics with math, by Edward Glaeser
Divorce rate trends — selective framing, by Graphic Sociology
Variable geometry premiership, by Jonathan Hopkin
Night, by Tony Judt
What is living and what is dead in social democracy, by Tony Judt
The decade of the con, by Frank Rich
I wish you would do a tumblr or maybe del.icio.us where you shared these articles when you found them; this list is almost impossible to digest.
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