The 2024 baseball seasons has begun – a good moment for a look back at the impact of changes made a year ago to try to refresh the nation’s pastime, which has been losing fan attention to other major sports, particularly football. To the less knowledgeable, the rules changes may seem modest. Pitchers were given […]
The polling between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump may be neck and neck, but in another barometer of the contest – money-raising – it is not much of a contest. By almost every metric, Biden is outperforming Trump. Not to mention that Trump is using a significant portion of his donations to […]
When President Biden appears before Congress tomorrow night to deliver his State of the Union address, he will no doubt tout the economic accomplishments of his administration, which are substantial. Taking office in the midst of a pandemic, Biden has presided over a surprisingly robust economic recovery that continues to power forward. Let’s start with […]
The presidential primary season is all but over – one of the shortest in memory – and that’s one of the challenges that our democracy is facing. Our elected leaders are being chosen by a smaller and smaller share of our population. For starters, the share of Americans who identify themselves as members of a […]
As the United States contemplates providing further aid to Ukraine and also considers further sanctions against Russia, it should consider the surprisingly robust state of the Russian economy – and what effect it has on Russia’s ability to maintain its war against its neighbor to the west. When Russia invaded Ukraine, many observers believed that […]
“[a] surprisingly modest account…Rattner has a journalistic talent for the telling detail, resulting in a memorable tale of life in the middle of the economic meltdown...Rattner deftly draws portraits of the inhabitants of "the Oval" and the West Wing...Rattner has proved himself a gifted chronicler.”
-Time Magazine
