US CPI: the trend is not your friend. On a three-month annualized basis inflation is up 8.2% and is up 5.6% on a 6-month annualized pace.
Over the past year energy prices were up 23.5%, energy commodities 40.6% and gasoline prices 40.6%. #Econ #EconSky
BYD outsold Ford, and now it thinks it can catch Toyota as the world’s No. 1 automaker
This from @jamellebouie.net is so good: “We need not wait for politicians and judges to build a new constitutional world. We can articulate our vision of the political community and work to make it a reality using whatever means are at our disposal.”
electrek.co
BYD is already the world’s largest EV maker, but the company’s CEO is confident it will become the world’s leading global automaker within the next five years.
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“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is)
The misogyny of the Trump administration has become so ubiquitous we barely even notice. We should. My new one at the newsletter:
open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
Andy Craig
David S. Bernstein
We're now in a downward spiral of partisan (& racial) gerrymandering: TX, then CA, now Southern states like TN and AL.
Is there a way to stop this? In a keynote lecture I gave in February at Loyola Law School, I argue that yes, there is, but the path is narrow.
Just posted to SSRN—
<p>What would it take to end the present downward spiral of partisan gerrymandering in the United States? This essay, a revised and expanded version of a
