Eduardo Porter writes in a New York Times column this morning that “a universal basic income will not solve poverty” — a claim that strikes me as mostly right but mostly beside the point…

Gretchen Morgenson writes in this week’s New York Times Sunday Business section:

There is a lot about this problem of income inequality — and about the economy over all — that Mr. Obama cannot…

Prompted by Gretchen Morgenson’s column in the New York Times over the weekend suggesting that the Obama administration could change the tax treatment of carried interest via executive action, a Treasury official told Tax Notes this week that the Department’s position is…

Like law review rankings, faculty citation counts are a little bit useful. Which means it is worth a least a blog post’s worth of attention to think about how to do them right. We should be grateful for the work that Greg Sisk and his team do in…

The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, a conservative-leaning student journal, just published an article claiming that the legal academy discriminates against conservative scholars. This is a…

Following up on Daniel’s post, let me add one point to his account of the effect of the “PAYGO” rule. (I’m not yelling, it’s supposed to be in all caps…) In Daniel’s longer treatment of the issues, he explains how political incentives tend to favor…