[Sorry to disappear for two days, kids. Was out of town surprising a friend who is getting married and who was in the states from Europe, where she lives. Am back. Obviously.]The loud and clear lesson from this article in today's Times: if you are...
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Counterintuitive news of the day: when fathers pay child support payments ostensibly to their poverty-stricken ex-partners and children, they're only helping deepen the women's poverty.How? Well, in many states the.
People are talking about Stephanie Coontz's NY Times Opinion column today, in which she advocates that we take back marriage from the control of the states. Here's the nub of.
It's no surprise at this point to learn that the prison door is revolving. Recent studies show that up to 2/3 of those recently released from prisons are rearrested within three years. Recidivism is expensive. It's also preventable, up to a point.It's not hard to...
Mark Halperin, trying to fill column space while saying nothing at all:Case in point: Our two most recent presidents, both of whom I covered while they were governors seeking the.
Will Okun, the Chicago school teacher who accompanied enlightened Nick [not Bill] Kristof on a trip to Africa earlier this year and got to blog about, misses badly with today's.
For years, proponents of the death penalty have argued that it acts as a deterrent. This claim has been damn tough to prove, probably because it's wrong. What's ironic, though, is that the prohibitively large expense of prosecuting capital cases may successfully deter "tough on...