The Obamacare Ratchet Effect
The Republicans have learned a basic political lesson: benefit programs create their own constituencies. Will Democrats catch on?
2 Articles by: Michael Paarlberg
Michael Paarlberg is an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
Epstein on Bangladesh: “Blame the Workers”
Richard Epstein, the libertarian legal scholar, has helpfully chimed into the discussion about the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 people so far by zeroing in on who’s really to blame: the workers.