I'm not sure I'm convinced by this argument:Economic geography tells us that market potential is important. If you want to be a rich place, it helps to be close to other rich places. This is one of the problems with the Rust Belt. Individually, Rust Belt...
Somebody explain to me how this makes sense:A small explosion in Kosovo is quickly growing into a much bigger incident after the authorities in the capital, Pristina, arrested three Germans,.
Via Megan Carpentier, Patricia Meisol has a very interesting article about the small number of medical practitioners who choose to become aboriton providers. One factor is the fact that the.
Yglesias commenter "hupcapiv" is making sense:I’ll bail out out [any] writer who promises not to use the tiresome Friedman-esque phrase "it’s not X, it’s X on steroids."I continue to endorse this idea. Some other fine choices here, although were he to write it today I'm sure...
Peter the Great has arrived in Venezuela:The flag of Venezuela already flies on the mast. It is naval tradition to fly the flag of the countries in whose port you.
The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners thinks that a blockade of Somali ports would be more effective against pirates than shipping escort. The European Community Shipowners Association thinks that.
Hinderaker, via Dave Weigel:Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is...
Sandy Levinson, a professor of law and political science, has been arguing for several years now that academics pay way too much attention, relatively speaking, to the rights provisions of.
I think Kim du Toit has been reading The Corner lately:[A]n increasingly large cohort of America in the lower 48 (and probably Hawaii) are p—-ies. They have no clue where.
This is a very trivial issue, but on the other hand this is an eclectic blog.Why are so many high-profile sports broadcasters so incredibly bad? OK, I'm sure broadcasting a sports event, like just about everything else in this world, is harder than it looks if...
Krugman on the Citigroup bailout. Or perhaps "weak, arbitrary, [and] incomprehensible" is the better phrase. The fact that Citigroup's shareholders are apparently not even going to get much of a.
I'm fairly agnostic about the merits of the appointment -- I'm inclined to defer to Obama's judgment given the quality of his campaign and Clinton is certainly a person of.