When Women Fail, They Pay a Much Bigger Price Than Men
Heather Sarsons Via Harold Pollack, here’s a new study that will probably not surprise you—but should incense you. Heather Sarsons, a graduate student at Harvard, examined Medicare data to determine how doctors referred patients to specialists for surgery. In particular, did they treat male and female surgeons differently? The answer is pretty simple: oh my,…
The Republican Tax Bill Might Help the Economy (By a Smidgen)
Tyler Cowen has been pushing back for a while against liberal disgust with the Republican tax bill. On Friday he linked to a couple of studies suggesting that low corporate tax rates are linked to both stronger growth and higher wages. “I’ve been reading in this area on and off since the 1980s,” he says,…
Republicans Suddenly Discover That Private Jets Don’t Deserve a Tax Break
Katerina Sulova/CTK/ZUMA A couple of days ago I saw a tweet about a provision of the Republican tax bill that gave owners of private airplanes a tax break. That seemed well worth a snarky blog post, but then I foolishly checked up on what the provision actually did. It…wasn’t really that bad. So I never…
Congress Timidly Complains About the War in Yemen
Hani Al-Ansi/DPA via ZUMA I failed to note this a couple of days ago, but it’s worth posting about: In a rare exercise of its war-making role, the House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly passed a resolution explicitly stating that U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen is not authorized under…
Behold the Latest In Management Consultant BS for the State Department
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been busily decimating the State Department despite the fact that both Democrats and Republicans want the department staffed at roughly the same level as last year. But will Congress ever do anything about this? Apparently they’re getting close, and Politico’s Nahal Toosi reports that even Sen. Bob Corker is…
Liberalism Demands That We Treat People Fairly, Even When It’s Hard
After going back and forth a bit about Al Franken’s sexual misconduct—he was a comedian at the time and his victim has accepted his apology, but then again, forgiving him could derail the movement to hold sexual predators accountable—Michelle Goldberg concludes that Franken should resign: It’s not worth it. The question isn’t about what’s fair…