Juan Cole: Well, I hate those US drones when used for purposes of warfare. But here is a Gandhian use for them. Let us defy the Syrian regime’s misuse of its sovereignty to murder its own citizens by using drones for supply airdrops.The US military...
Month: February 2012
The landmark criminal procedure decisions of the Warren Court have generally not been overruled, but this is somewhat misleading; in many cases, the precedents formally remain standing, but have been.
Shorter Alana Goodman: I'm a contemporary conservative. Of course I don't understand the concept of "consent." For that matter, I don't know why people get so upset about forced sterilization.
This week's WPR column considers the rhetoric of war against Iran: The case for attacking Iran relies overwhelmingly on the concept of uncertainty. We don’t know if the Iranians want to build a bomb, or whether they can build a bomb, or when they might...
For those who believe that science is apolitical, allow me to present Exhibit A: rare photographs from Hiroshima. I'm not saying the relationship between politics and science is inherently good.
The Texas Railroad Commission, for reasons that I assume have to do with keeping an antiquated state agency relevant, regulates energy policy for the Lone Star State. The TRC met.
Diane Ravitch's piece is so essential I'm reluctant to excerpt from it at all. But these key points stand out to me: The new evaluation system pretends to be balanced, but it is not. Teachers will be ranked on a scale of 1-100. Teachers will...
Victor Davis Hanson should be celebrated for writing an entire post without mentioning that he taught Classics to poor people. But he shouldn't be celebrated for writing what he wrote:.
The legendary climate change scientist and brawler against denialists Peter Gleick is in some serious hot water because he has admitted to passing along the internal Heartland Institute documents that.
Climate-change villain and sociopath I'm not minimizing the fact that inefficient cookstoves in the developing world cause a lot of problems, including lung disease in the women who use them, deforestation, and other important issues. In fact, there's been a multi-decade effort to introduce more...
This is an interesting piece at Rustwire on Cleveland's constant attempts to rebrand itself over the past 40 years. As industry left the city, Cleveland suffered an identity crisis as.
The one encouraging thing to take from the imminent passage of the mandatory sexual assault law in Virginia is that we finally have an arbitrary abortion regulation that is highly.