The natural drift of the Overton Window is to the right, which means a bias in favor of right-wing policies. We need a strong left to pull the window back to the center. Therefore, if you favor centrist policies you should support the left.

Workers are so screwed. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

What a bunch of clowns. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/li...

Based on everything we keep seeing I just don’t know how people are so reflexively defensive of Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries etc. They’ve all fucking failed us. Their job was/is to fight the right and they don’t do it.

Democrats attack me whenever I criticize their party. But many Democrats share my concerns. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

Democrats are completely hopeless. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The GOP has retroctively made President Andrew Johnson a Republican. (He was an elected Democratic senator from Tennessee who opposed secession.)

Better late than never. wapo.st/4tpgoL8

It's funny how the people who think the Civil War was fought over tariffs rather than slavery don't seem bothered by Trump's tariffs.

God I hope Michelle Goldberg is right about the radicalization of the Democratic base. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

Real study, not from The Onion. studyfinds.com/goldfish-inv...

Guess how many big, profitable US corporations legally paid no income tax last year? Answer in first comment.

I could not easily find a full transcript of King Charles' speech before Congress yesterday so I posted it on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

My wife is from Tulsa and although she now lives with me in Northern Virginia she still goes back to visit her children. If the day ever comes that we sell our house, I've told her I wouldn't mind moving to Tulsa. The Washington DC area no longer feels like home to me. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans opposed "corporate welfare." Will any say a word about this travesty? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/b...

Orwell's 1984 is being used as a guidebook. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Non-compete contracts for low-wage workers are an abomination that need to be abolished. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

New study says the revenue-maximizing corporate tax rate is well above the current rate. www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R489...

I would say Trump is the biggest asshole in the history of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

How I learned about supply-side economics. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Of all the stupid things for Democrats to learn from Republicans this may be the stupidest. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/b...

I look forward to the day when Kash Patel is only allowed inside the FBI building as a defendant. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Argentina's experiment with libertarianism is failing. Free link. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Trump's corruption is the winningest issue Democrats have got. They should talk about it nonstop. www.amazon.com/Fix-America-...

gift article wapo.st/4tgl0nu

It was 50 years ago this year that I went to work for Ron Paul. He was defeated a few months later and I went to work for Jack Kemp, where my job was to devise the Kemp-Roth bill, which became the 1981 tax cut. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

The Republican screw-up cycle--it's real and it's intentional. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

Not only is my wife Native American but she was born in Japan (on a US Army base to American-born parents). Is our marriage valid?

Has anyone ever negotiated a deal with someone like Trump? Someone who agrees to a deal one day, rejects it the next day for no apparent reason and refuses to be bound by any contractual obligation. What did you do?

I wish someone would explain to me in simple terms why so many Christians believe that their faith forces them to hate trans people. What biblical verses compel this attitude?

Maine Democrats are once again searching for a way to reelect Susan Collins. They are such losers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Trump is the most racist president since Woodrow Wilson. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

If Trump had been elected in 1940 we'd all be speaking German or Japanese today. This idiot has no more idea how to fight a proper war than a newborn baby.