A federal judge has persuasively ruled that the Obama administration's disgraceful decision to refuse over-the-counter access to emergency contraception for young women under 18 was illegal. The decimation of the administration's farcical invocation of 11-year-olds is particularly strong, but the entire opinion is well-constructed and devastating....
On April 8, 1952, President Harry Truman nationalized the steel industry in order to forestall a strike scheduled the next day that would have shut down steel production during the.
My latest feature at the Diplomat expresses some skepticism about the potential for accidental war on the Korean Peninsula: Again, few wars happen by accident; most take place because policymakers.
R.I.P. ...[Erik] In case you need a whole soundtrack of anti-Thatcher songs. [DB]: even more music, with analysis. I think I'd rather be in the UK for this coverage, as it promises to be somewhat more balanced than here.
First-rate reporting by Alana Semuels. Read the whole etc., but the bottom line as a teaser: The relentless drive for efficiency at U.S. companies has created a new harshness in.
To celebrate what's going to be a very Mad Men week here -- at least two posts by me and a podcast starring an illustrious cast of thousands -- I.
The great documentarian is no more.
Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the.
I really like the athletic director who comes on at 1:20 of yesterday's SNL skit: I don't want to be unduly optimistic -- if American history has taught us anything,.
Which perfectly sums up the lunacy of big time collegiate sports in the US. Most of us know the story now, and it appears that plenty of administrators at Rutgers knew the full story in late November. An outside report was commissioned, but not to determine...
Get your damned gubmit out of Curt Schilling's Galtian entrepreneurship! Providence, R.I. game developer 38 Studios knew it was in dire straits before it moved the company from Massachusetts to.
Anytime a major newspaper discusses historiographical trends, it's worth noting. That it's about the rise of the history of capitalism as a field is more notable. In my opinion, this.