Well, well, well: In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt." Their "main result is that...median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP are roughly one percent lower than otherwise; average (mean)...
Glenn Reynolds has some Deep Thoughts: And it's also reminder that media bias exists not only in how the press covers stories, but in the choice of stories to cover.
This was tough to get through: Trusting your child with someone else is one of the hardest things that a parent has to do—and in the United States, it’s harder still,.
I make this confession: I'm an anthropologist from the future, intent on discovering feelings that have yet to be offended, except I did something wrong and it collapsed and broke my brain and feet and spleen. Some of the aftermath has been chronicled online.* But the...
A terrible day what with this horrifying Boston violence. I have nothing to offer at this point except for that. And an attempt at lightheartedness that might make people feel.
"It would be irresponsible to speculate," Pamela Geller will never say, especially not when Muslims speak. Conservatives have realized that having a choke-hold on the narrative and maintaining constant pressure.
Jen Rubin everybody! Adam also notes that Rubin's attack of a colleague with an exceptionally offensive non-sequitur would seem to violate the WaPo's guidelines. But since it's hard to find one that Rubin doesn't violate on a systematic basis -- especially #1 -- I guess it...
Obviously our invasion of Saudi Arabia after the 9/11 attacks failed to prevent more terror. Update: NY Post report of arrest denied by police. From NBC News: Federal officials told.
Our thoughts are with anyone injured in the bombing. Initial reports are very likely to be wrong; this is inevitable, and does not mean that a conspiracy is afoot. If.
(Of course this is yet another one of those visual rhetoric posts. Can you not see all the pictures?) The title of the episode, "The Collaborators," is so obviously meant to be evocative that it almost sinks beneath its own freight. The episode's foremost "collaboration" occurs...
It's a robust internet tradition that the a significant portion of the comments in every post that responds to Matthew Yglesias, or even mentions him in passing, must be dominated.
Despite the violence fetish of some leftists, the reality is that left-wing terrorism has declined to almost nothing in the United States since 1980. We do face severe domestic terrorist.