The Supreme Court granted cert in two of the specious legal challenges to the ACA's contraceptive mandate, and I'm not particularly optimistic. One point I want to emphasize is that contraceptive coverage is earned, not "free": One argument that has been made again and again by...
Shorter Lambert: That Paul Krugman is such an unprincipled hack. Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton's health care reform plan is acceptable only when it's proposed by Hillary Clinton. And he's.
A couple of Wednesday morning conversation-starters... *The first thing I wanted to address is my embarrassing holes. This is a family blog, so, no, this has nothing to do with.
SEK'S NEIGHBOR: I heard you talking on the phone about some "doctor" you think is all-powerful. SEK: What? SEK'S NEIGHBOR: On your phone, you were telling someone about this "doctor" you found, could do all these -- come back from the dead. SEK: Wouldn't surprise me....
For those of you who like long, detailed reports about the struggles of working people to earn a decent living in the United States, this report on home care workers.
As these researchers point out, it absolutely makes sense to engage in a significant emissions reduction program, even if India and China are going to pump out as much into.
Julia Ioffe's article about Heritage Action is fascinating reading. As IB notes in comments, it's not that Heritage was ever non-hackish, but "[w]hat has changed, however, is the organization’s ability to think strategically and act effectively. It’s gone from being an extremely effective hackish pressure group...
The peoples are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the launching of HMS Warspite. A quick review of Warspite's World War II fighting record confirms that the most common understanding of.
This has been making the rounds and is worth a read: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang? It's a slightly different take on the "academia as a dual labor market".
Shocking that Tom Coburn's report on the national parks would be nothing but a justification for slashing budgets, eliminating the Antiquities Act (one of America's best laws and one that western legislators have hated ever since it was passed in 1906 and Theodore Roosevelt used it...
Over the past few weeks, a number of people employed by and connected to Penn State's law school have helped draw the following portrait of what's going on there: PSU's.
Tuesday links... I don’t know which of these is funniest: I do, however, know that the skree has gone well past 11. Here’s Roy’s--funny and awesome--take on the rightblogger response.