Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.