Charles Lane used his Washington Post column to brag about the fact that the fossil fuel industry and climate denialists have had enough political power to prevent more widespread use of electrical cars

The opponents of measures to reduce to GHG emissions are not at all interested in preserving market outcomes. They are insisting on their right to dump their sewage on our lawn, or more specifically to make the planet uninhabitable for anyone who doesn’t have the money to protect themselves from the consequences

Usually, presidents don’t want to be boasting about raising taxes on the middle class in an election year, but apparently Trump feels differently

A major feature of NAFTA was the requirement that Mexico strengthen and lengthen its patent and copyright protections. These barriers are 180 degrees at odds with expanding trade and removing barriers

Zuckerberg is not a political philosopher concerned about the public good. There is a zero evidence he is a deep thinker of any sort. He is a Harvard boy who stumbled into a good idea and had the necessary connections to get very rich from it: end of story

The idea that Medicare for All can’t work because it means higher taxes should be rejected for the nonsense it is

The thing to fear isn’t productivity growth. It’s false narratives and bad economic policy.

Since everyone who matters seems to be just fine with ever longer and stronger patent and copyright protection, let’s use them to raise a ton of money for the government and make the deficit hawks happy

The key issue here is that workers with employer-provided health care insurance are effectively already being taxed for their health care insurance

Without monopolies, drugs are cheap to make, and there’s no incentive to lie about their benefits and harms