This is a fascinating 1967 document from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a great window into how the Great Society tried to figure out what to do with declining cities, in particular into the faith in science and technology to solve urban problems....
In the midst of her palpable excitement over the possibility that an asinine legal argument may be used to deny tens of millions of people health care, Megan McArdle inadvertently.
I know what this is like, to be attacked by lunatics from around the country whipped up by frothing goat-molesting idiots: A Portland ice cream shop is bombarded with dozens.
If I'm Doug Feith or Dick Cheney or Paul Wolfowitz, this is just crazy talk. An aid worker who travels to Raqqa said the ranks of ISIS were filled with volatile young men, many of them foreigners more interested in violence than governance. To keep things...
Somehow I don't think Niger lowering its birth rate is going to lead to it becoming the next Singapore: There is no mystery about the immense benefits that Niger and.
Updated As a tail end boomer (graduated high school 1978) I submit I would have gone 16 for 16 on this quiz if it had covered the pop music ephemera.
Here you go. Sample: Much praise has been showered upon the unsubtle English-language debut of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer, but the most interesting came from an unexpected source, conservative columnist Michael Potemra, who wrote that “the film succeeds aesthetically and as pure entertainment” despite...
Seals have far surpassed Americans in their support for offshore wind energy: The scientists observed eleven harbor seals outfitted with GPS tracking tags in the North Sea frequenting two active.
[edit: original photo replaced with one of Lawley; I inadvertently used one of another "plus-sized" model] Wins praise for appearing in un-retouched bikini photo. Last night we stumbled upon (OK.
Given that Steve Jobs was a sociopath and given the labor conditions at overseas factories where Apple products are made, it's not at all hard to believe that the company would treat their U.S. labor horribly: A state court in California has granted class certification to...
To the extent that there's an argument against reading the ACA to include subsidies on the federal exchanges, it has to be that while Congress intended the subsidies to be.
Freedom Summer was 50 years ago this year and its anniversary has been pretty underreported. Anyway, this is an interesting piece from one of the white organizers about the relationship.