Liberal Talk Radio

Occupy Wall Street and the 53% Rick Scott doesn’t get liberal arts education Starbucks gets into microfinance Quick hits: anthropology majors, Prop 1

The candidates who weren’t: Christie, Palin David Leonhardt on the Great Depression Bank debit card fees Steve Jobs and modern design from Ross Douthat How Sprawl is a Ponzi Scheme Al Davis Florida: no flouride for you!

Bit of a grab bag this week: Rick Perry’s ranch Hank Williams Kochs in Iran Free Trade Bills Occupy Wall Street Anwar Al-Awlaki Amanda Knox

The fed tries to stave off a double-dip recession Solyndra and government energy subsidies Palestinian statehood bid Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell officially repealed Quick hits: fewer 18-25 year olds lack health insurance, Vladimir Putin to run for President again

Obama calls for higher taxes on the wealthy Rick Perry’s link to the HPV vaccine Teachers Unions vs. Rahm Emanuel Netflix splits up Quick hits: germs in the playground; the Palestine vote in the UN

Obama gives the big jobs speech. What’s in it? Some economists have terrible ideas for the US economy Amazon blinks in its fight with the CA legislature. Why? Quick hits: IED prices drop, China gets an aircraft carrier.

Thoughts on Labor Day What to expect in Obama’s jobs speech Republican candidates vs. themselves on health care Quick hits: the Post Office is back in the news, the Amazon Kindle tablet

Scotland, South Sudan, and the 21st-century nation state Religion and politicians HP kills the TouchPad, Jobs leaves Apple

Wisconsin Recall Middle east update Libya, Egypt & Israel, Syria Howard Schultz & Warren Buffet want to help America Quick hits: The Economist on voter behavior, Seattle votes for the tunnel  

Celebrating a return to the air with a recap of the Prof’s trip to the British Isles The difference between the Irish and American bubbles Recap of the Debt Ceiling and the S&P downgrade Iowa straw poll results Quick hits: King County Metro gets financial relief, the Prof visits J.S. Mill’s birthplace