Matt Yglesias Has Moved
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT Matt Yglesias has left ThinkProgress to join Slate, where he writes the “Moneybox” blog. You can check it out here. We wish Matt continued success and thank him for nearly three years of insightful blogging here at ThinkProgress.
Goodbye!
18 Nov 2011 10:30pm GMT Well, folks, this is it for me! ThinkProgress is the team I’ve been a part of longest, and it’s really been a fantastic job and an enormous privilege to work with everyone here and at the larger CAP/AF. I’ll miss everyone! But on we go to new things. In principle there should be shiny new [...]
You Can’t Abandon Electoral Politics
18 Nov 2011 9:45pm GMT I’m really looking forward to engaging in a bit less intra-progressive sniping about political tactics, but one thing I keep hearing said on behalf of Occupy Wall Street protests is that the regular electoral process has somehow “failed” progressives. I don’t think that analysis withstands the slightest bit of scrutiny. We had fairly substantial political [...]
Predicting Versus Modeling
18 Nov 2011 8:59pm GMT There’s debate raging on several blogs and also sporadically on an email list that I belong to about macroeconomic conditions versus campaign effects that I think is tending to confuse a few things. In particular, I hear a lot of the detractors of fundamentals-based models throwing around terms like “determinism” and “predictable.” The question of [...]
The Miracle Of The Elevator
18 Nov 2011 8:14pm GMT Karl Smith notes that America is primed for a record level of new starts on multi-family apartment buildings. That’s excellent news because via Alex Block it looks like the DC area, which has a relatively strong labor market, is having trouble finding enough housing slots for everyone who’d like to live here and work to [...]