ABC just blew a major hole in Trump’s denial of major economic ties to Russia.
Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at the New York University Marron Institute.
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Trump, Russia, and “McCarthyism”
The Republican candidate is getting assistance from a foreign power only interested in its own power.
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Promoting Cannabis Use Disorder in California
If someone wanted to write a law to increase the prevalence of that problem, it would look a lot like the Adult Use of Marijuana Act
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Defending the Indefensible: Ann Althouse on Trump’s Blood Libel
There’s always something to be learned from watching seemingly intelligent people defending the indefensible. Ann Althouse teaches law at the University of Wisconsin, which implies that her IQ must be above room temperature. (Her moral standing, given her at-best-ambivalence about torture (oh, I’m sorry, that’s merely “harsh interrogation techniques”) is another matter.) But her hatred of […]
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Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool…
So John Kasich – remember, he’s supposed to be the sane Republican – is getting the horse-laugh for trying to teach Torah to a bunch of haredi Yeshiva students in Borough Park. (The term “goy-splaining” has been used.) I have to say that I’m a little bit distressed. Now, it’s not that Kasich didn’t make […]
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How to Make More Good Blue-Collar Jobs
If you’re looking for a silver lining in the dark cloud of the Trump candidacy, you might notice that it has brought some attention to the worsening state of white people without a college degree. It’s not that the world is rosy for non-whites without college degrees, of course, but on average they were starting […]
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Apologies to Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders has demanded that Hillary Clinton apologize for accusing his campaign of lying. Since Clinton is overwhelmingly likely to be the nominee, and since she will need his voters to defeat Trump or Cruz or Kasich or the Fuller Brush Man or whoever the Republicans finally nominate, it would be in her interest […]
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Hilary Bricken on Investing in Cannabis
Hilary Bricken heads the cannabis law group at at Harris Moure, PLLC and will lead the panel on “investing in cannabis” at the NYU Cannabis Science & Policy Summit two weeks from now. She has some good advice both for firms in the cannabis business seeking investors and for potential investors about the risks the firms need […]
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Trump Reverses Course on Unlawful Orders
Just the day after he doubled down on his assertion that he could order the U.S. military to violate the laws of war by committing torture and murdering enemies’ families, and that he would be obeyed because he’s such a great leader, Donald Trump backed off, without of course admitting that he’d be wrong. Of […]
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What Makes Bernie (Continue) to Run?
UPDATE Lots of Twitter response to this. No, I’m not accusing Sanders of “grifting.” His goal is influence, not money. I’m just asking him to level with his followers. Nate Silver, whose predictions I rely on below, sums up today’s voting: Sanders won two of three states, but actually fell 11 delegates farther behind Clinton, […]
