Thomas Neuburger

by Thomas NeuburgerThe Democratic Party's "Unity Task Force," the one tasked with merging Biden's proposals with Sanders', has recently released its recommendations, among them this set of proposals for marijuana: "Substance use disorders are diseases, not a crimes. Democrats believe no one should be in prison solely because they use drugs.

by Thomas NeuburgerWhen the Social contract breaks from above, it breaks from below as well.     —Yours trulyA "theory of change" in modern progressive parlance is the method by which one gets from A to B, from a world with employer-controlled health care, for example, to Medicare for All, a universal, government-controlled program.

The relationship between carbon emissions and Gross World Product (human economic activity)by Thomas NeuburgerThe road to 2°C is steep; the road to 1.5°C is a cliff.—Robbie Andrew, Center for International Climate ResearchSome of my best friends are incrementalists.

Thanks to Trump's mismanagement of the Covid-19 outbreak, the U.S. is on the verge of becoming the Typhoid Mary of major industrial nationsby Thomas NeuburgerDonald Trump's resignation is a topic on many lips these days.

Pre-Covid GDP for the first quarter of 2020. Q2 loss will be five to seven times greater than the Q1 loss.Post-Covid Fed funds rates.

by Thomas NeuburgerAccording to Charles Gasparino, a Fox News reporter whom you may or may not consider reliable (not because he's Fox; because he's Gasparino), Joe Biden has narrowed his VP search list to two names — Rep.

One version of the "thin blue line" flag, a symbol used in a variety of ways by American police departments, their most fervent supporters, and other righ

Police protecting the down-trodden from violenceby Thomas Neuburger"If there's any job that domestic abuse should disqualify a person from holding, it's the one job that gives you a lethal weapon, trains you to stalk people without their noticing, and relies on your judgment and discretion to protect the abused from abusers."—Conor Friedersdorf

"Large populations of educated under-employed people are very very dangerous to the social order" while "Jeff Bezos is having a very good crisis" —  Krystal Ball, Saagar Enjeti and Joel Kotkin discuss how screwed people will be, especially young people, when the active coronavirus era ends.by Thomas Neuburger"What will we break if the next thing that breaks is us?" —Yours trulyAs regular readers know, I've been concerned about the "coronavirus endgam

The US case curve (logarithmic scale) shows a steady 20,000 cases per day for more than 65 days straight, compared with the five worst-hit countries in Europe.