Economic DeBLOGraphy

A very cool graphic from a working paper by Larry Bartels quoted in a tweet from Matthew Yglesias: This Larry Bartels chart contains so...

I'm looking forward to this with great excitement! If my book were my baby (which, let's face it, it kind of is) today would be ...

NPR reports on efforts in California by the CMQCC to reduce maternal mortality. There's a lot here, including discussions of the proxi...

The breastfeeding news. 1. Covered in detail in new book! 2. Long term benefits (IQ, obesity, etc) way overstated in developed world; shor...

Several outlets including NPR  were reporting last week about discharges of immigrants seeking to join the military, including the Army Time...

A vox.com article by Matthew Yglesias  references a great blog post by Paul Krugman  guesstimating the outcome of a global trade war as a ta...

The latest Administration kerfuffle on the international stage concerns the WHO and breast feeding. It's hard to know exactly what happe...