The Project on Student Debt has just released a study, indicating that 71% of 2012 graduates of non-profit colleges and universities graduated with student debt, and that on average these students borrowed $29,400 over the course of their college attendance (This figure does not include accrued...
Johnathan Bernstein has an addition to my recent series of posts on health care reform: One key point that Lemieux doesn't mention this time: in one sense, this really isn't.
This week's Diplomat column examines the implications of the diffusion of precision strike: The concern apparent in Watts’ monograph is the increasing lethality of Chinese precision-strike systems. Conventional Chinese weapons.
I get atypically angry -- seriously pissed off -- at the discourse surrounding gun control in the United States. This, in part, explains the colourful language I employed while digesting the NRA's response to Sandy Hook, and why I'm happy that my daughter is growing up...
Today's winner: Katie Couric.
I was sad to read about the death of Judy Rodgers. The Zuni Cafe Cookbook has long been one of my favorites, and I've been able to visit the namesake.
I've been waiting for Dahlia Lithwick to take on the argument that corporations can "exercise" religion (and hence can claim exemptions from laws that don't even significantly burden the religious beliefs of their owners) for a while. Thankfully, she now has. And she has a definitive...
Regarding Auburn-Alabama: If Alabama backup kicker Adam Griffith hits the 57-yard field goal, Alabama wins without having to go to overtime. The odds of that kick going through the uprights.
Well, duh. Unfortunately, that's not what happened last week in northwestern Georgia, where a 72 year-old, with Alzheimer’s, Deanne Westbrook, wandered into a stranger's yard three miles from home. He.
When you’re online-- posting, talking to people, sharing your opinion--it’s natural to want to put your best face forward. We want people to think we like good food, cool music, and have tastefully-decorated homes. (Not mine, of course--my house is floor to ceiling early 80’s unicorn...
As long-time readers know and new readers were reminded yesterday, I've long been intensely irritated by claims that the Affordable Care Act proves that Barack Obama is a hapless sellout.
Gonna file this under "too crazy to be true": Angola is in the process of acquiring the recently-decommissioned Spanish aircraft carrier Principe de Asturias, according to one news report. The entire Angolan.