Such as by myself in reading the latest Maureen Dowd gossip passing as lively political talk on the Hillary texting meme. My IQ declined by 3 points reading that column.
With what charge exactly is not yet clear. Over/under on the first talking head who draws an analogy to Leo Frank and/or the Scottsboro Boys: Three hours and 17 minutes..
The National Review employed more overt racists than just John Derbyshire. I haven't been this surprised since Jon Huntsman failed to capture the Republican nomination. In fairness, it's hard to.
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.