A loopy policy has moved the debate in a helpful direction One of Elizabeth Warren's formative political tangles, which prompted her move from law professor at Harvard to senator from Massachusetts, occurred in 2005 over a bankruptcy reform bill. Ms Warren was concerned about the repercussions for middle-class Americans, especially women, who would have a harder time filling for bankruptcy as a ..
The city council wants to make Hart Island more accessible "No one who sleeps there had a dollar to their name in life... the bodies interred here are as utterly forgotten and wiped away as if they never existed." This is how the New York Herald described Hart Island in 1874, five years after the city began burying its poor on the island off the Bronx. A century and a half later the poor and unc..
The Right Nation was last this enthusiastic about left-wing policies in 1961 Americans are more in favour of "big-government" policies today than at any point in the last 68 years. That is the conclusion of James Stimson, a political scientist, who has analysed long-running polls from the Universities of Chicago and Michigan to come up with annual estimates of the "public mood". Mr Stimson estim..