by jpitney | Nov 21, 2024 | Civility
Disagree Better: the 2024 Dreier Roundtable Civility Award Mon, November 25, 2024 Lunch Program Governor Spencer Cox and David Dreier ’75 In today’s world, civil discourse is the exception rather than the rule. That’s precisely why the Dreier Roundtable...
by jpitney | Nov 14, 2024 | California Politics, Trade
Levi Sumagaysay at CalMatters: Businesses that import goods into the country must pay the tariffs. They tend to pass on their increased costs to consumers, with some executives recently promising to do just that during their earnings calls. So economists largely view...
by jpitney | Nov 13, 2024 | Budget, Public Administration
Andrew Rudalevige at Good Authority: Probably the closest quasi-recent parallel is the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control in the Federal Government, convened by Ronald Reagan in 1982. PPSSCCFG was hardly a mellifluous acronym, so the body was usually...
by jpitney | Nov 12, 2024 | Mass Media, Public Opinion
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by jpitney | Nov 10, 2024 | Russia, Ukraine
Zelensky: “We aren’t ready to give our freedom to this f*cking terrorist Putin.” pic.twitter.com/sSmg2CmJDw — Lee West (@WhoDat35) November 10, 2024