Alex Brill

Recent Senate Deal on Unemployment Benefits Shows that Bipartisanship Isn’t Always Good

By Alex Brill March 17, 2014

The recent Senate agreement on unemployment benefits is a reminder that bipartisan cooperation isn’t always a good thing. The deal combines two big policy mistakes that I have criticized before: ...

Elizabeth Warren Has Used Shoddy Evidence Before

By Alex Brill & Aparna Mathur May 12, 2012

Elizabeth Warren is again at the center of a political controversy. Despite her insistence that she is part Cherokee, based upon “family lore” and her observation that some in her ...

Politics & Policy

Limit the Real Debt

By Alex Brill & Colin Hanna June 2, 2011

The debate this summer over raising the debt limit promises to be intense, and perhaps divisive, but it also provides an opportunity for meaningful fiscal reform. The unprecedented public attention ...

One in Seven Democrats Vote No

By Alex Brill November 9, 2009

Thirty-nine House Democrats stood up to Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and voted against the Pelosi health-care bill. Brody Mullens at the WSJ ...

Consumers Hit When Democrats Swing at the Health-Care Industry

By Alex Brill November 6, 2009

There has been a fair amount of criticism towards the pharmaceutical industry, here and here, for cooperating with the White House on health-care reform. As I discuss today in this ...

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Recent Senate Deal on Unemployment Benefits Shows that Bipartisanship Isn’t Always Good

Elizabeth Warren Has Used Shoddy Evidence Before

Limit the Real Debt

One in Seven Democrats Vote No

Consumers Hit When Democrats Swing at the Health-Care Industry