Health care is not a regular consumer good in which normal market incentives apply.
This reminds of this: UPDATE [SL]: Speaking of which, let's not forget this special day.
Gov. Perry would apparently like his fellow Texans to listen to more of The Cure.
I have a new Prospect article up on how Roberts and Alito aren't as bad as Scalia and Thomas...they're worse. To make one more point about the remarkable Stuart Taylor article I discuss, consider his assertion that Alito will be able to "keep his political preferences...
I awoke this morning with a notion of ridiculing the marginal voices on the intertubes who'd begun winding themselves into knots over a new German "study" claiming that compact fluorescent.
I have also been hearing some arguments to this effect: Let’s make something clear, the civil war in Libya will not end in a stalemate. The French will likely intervene.
Gail Collins. More of this, please.
Congratulations to our friends at Feministing for receiving a richly deserved Sidney Hillman Foundation award. Oddly, the foundation used the metric of reading the blog's content rather than the conservative.
See Loomis on Robert E. Lee. Also worth quoting: The conventional wisdom holds, for example, that Lee disdained secession, but once his state took that step he was duty bound.
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article about the increasing willingness of state legislatures to restrict access to abortion. The facts are depressing: Since the start of this year, 916 measures.
My column this week is on early lessons from Libya: The bombing of Libya was supposed to teach the region's autocrats that the international community would not stand by and.