Predatory lending still poses a systemic risk to the economy. Will Obama’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau succeed in taming it, or will the agency be strangled in its crib?
GOP
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2012, Politics
The Anchor
Forget Rachel, Bill, Anderson, and Sean. The broadcaster who will most determine the 2012 elections is Jorge Ramos.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April 2012, Politics
Stay for Tea
The real Tea Partiers are worth getting to know. Because they’re going to be here a while. And they might prove useful.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
The GOP’s Reality-Based Community
The fall of moderate Republicans wasn’t inevitable. But their resurrection is hard to imagine.
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
What If Obama Loses?
Imagining the consequences of a GOP victory.
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
Financial Regulation
Back to the good ol’ days of 2008.
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Environment
The end of the EPA as we know it.
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
Foreign Affairs
The “more enemies, fewer friends” doctrine.
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Courts
The conservative takeover will be complete.
