The weeks since the November elections could be a case study in the premise of Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s latest collaboration, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- ...

Alan Reynolds has a great column putting the smack down on political scientist Jacob Hacker's "Family Income Stability" index. Read the whole thing, but here is the amusing final paragraph: I have no ...

The basic underlying principle of the New Deal was that security is not opposed to opportunity but essential to it.

Jacob Hacker and David Goldhill debate the resolution: "The government should offer to all Americans a health insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans." Jacob Hacker is arguing ...