An acquaintance of mine, a professor at a top business school, is a big fan of state-run lotteries. "It's a tax that poor people pay voluntarily!" he tells me with starry-eyed wonder. This is the kind of thing that makes me sympathetic to Marxist accounts of...
I have a piece up at the Prospect responding to Orin Kerr's assessment of the various ways on which a decision striking down the ACA could be viewed as "judicial.
It looks like this year's farm bill will be even more atrocious than normal.
The mania for whitening products in the developing world reaches a new frontier in India. The ad shows (see video, above) a woman wearing trousers, looking mournful because her vagina is dark, like the cup of coffee she’s holding in her hands. The suggestion is that...
I love it. The conservative tea party icon also got in shots at Democrats and President Obama, who spoke Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University. West said Obama was "scared" to.
One key step to improving sanitation and thus people's lives in the developing world is spreading the sanitary toilet, arguably the greatest technological innovation in history. This Bloomberg piece is.
Dear Brown People of Northern New Mexico, Please let me move into your communities so I can find meaning in my spiritually dead consumerist life. I will still consume your cultures, driving up property values, and forcing many of you to sell your land. But you...
Well, what has been true de facto since Rick Perry remarkably proved himself too dumb for Republican debates is now pretty much de jure. Although it certainly says something about.
Lori Montgomery. Montgomery's "report" is a classic of the shape-of-the-earth-views-differ genre. A worthless "study" by a Republican touted as if it was comparable to an official CBO report? Check! No.
It's very difficult to describe the layers of stupid that went into this article: But Democrats have not merely been horrified bystanders wringing their hands as this “war” has unfolded. The Democratic Party has actively encouraged the GOP’s descent into antifeminism. And though Democrats have reaped...
The level of stupidity over these Ozzie Guillen pro-Castro remarks makes me want to jump off a bridge. I love that the Marlins hired a manager with a known history.
Chris Christie, brave truth-teller: The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released this week, found that while Mr. Christie said that state transportation officials had revised cost estimates.