On topic, Biden has two problems: his age, and that he's been a deeply mediocre President, with low approval ratings that have never recovered from his disastrous Afghanistan decision. If he… (View Post)

If Putin had just been content with lopping off a few more chunks of eastern and southern Ukraine last year he'd probably already have dictated terms to Zelenski in Kyiv. But even the luckiest d… (View Post)

Interesting thread, but I think the statistical methodology is questionable, for a number of reasons. Eleven is an extremely small sample, and I would use VI not leader approval, as the former is a b… (View Post)

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" as Tory Edmund Burke might have commented on ye-olde-pb.com. (View Post)

The first thing you always do in government when considering a policy with long term costs and benefits is bin the business case/impact assessment/cost-benefit analysis though, for several overlappin… (View Post)