Bill Brown, a visiting professor of the practice of law at Duke University, says the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 is the best model for getting America out of […]
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When the death toll reached 1,000 in the latest Israel-Palestine exchange, it made frontpage international headlines. Now that 900 people have been killed in the Congoas a result of a botched […]
For decades, the average Indian citizen could vote for the governmental representatives of his choosing and then follow their foibles in the news—and that’s where his access to government ended. […]
Blogs have erupted over the disappearance of documentary film maker/blogger/freelance journalist Philip Rizk. The grad student at AUC (American University in Cairo) was among a group of peaceful protesters detained […]
Bloomberg today reports that the yen rose against the dollar after “the U.S. government delayed the announcement of a financial- recovery plan.” Traders took refuge. “Japan’s currency gained as U.S. […]
Speaking today at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice President Joe Biden told the world that the U.S. would no longer be a swaggering soloist throwing its muscle around […]
A sophomore at the University of Virginia who has fought in Iraq, as well as a few of his classmates, have designed a stronger, more comfortable body armor that they […]
A team of hyper-geniuses at MIT’s Media Lab has designed a cellphone type device that gathers data on the environment around you, searches for information using the Internet, aggregates the […]
Lance Armstrong and doping. Marion Jones and steroids. Tanya Harding and a lead pipe. Scandal seems to inevitably follow on the heels of—or, in some cases, preclude—gold medals. So it […]
According to NASA, there is a green comet named Lulin approaching Earth. One astronomer calls it “a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now.” […]
Libertarian music critic Nat Hentoff, one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. In a press release issued by the […]
The British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks recently chronicled the experience of losing his sight from ocular melanoma in a series of journals and an interview with Wired magazine. It’s […]
I’ve more or less stopped paying attention to political news from Zimbabwe. As an increasing number of “talks” seem to end in reaffirmation of still President Mugabe’s Reign of Terror, […]
Demonstrated by his activity on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the official White House portal, President Obama is institutionalizing social networking as the interactive feature par excellence in American governance. The […]
The chief executive of Cisco, John Chambers, has emerged as one of Silicon Valley’s few optimists, proclaiming that the U.S. economy will recover this year. Oh my! An article in […]
In an editorial that strongly echoes the inaugural address and his reminder to Congress last week that “we don’t have a moment to spare,” Barack Obama told Washington Post readers […]
Investment banks, suddenly the target of pitchforks rather than perky Ivy Leaguers, are defunct. Hedge funds are all but wiped out—some of the remaining ones still in the game only […]
Here’s one demographic that’s been lurking under the surface of the new China: Nigerians living in Guangzhou. Apparently with nothing more than a few yuan in their pockets, Nigerians with […]
In these economic times, it’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t long for a dry martini. But Jason Wilson in the Washington Post today asserts that the “post-war era dry […]
Today kicks off the 2009 Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor groups such as SEIU and the United Steel Workers […]
In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon interviewed philosopher J. D. Trout about empathy.During the course of a rather hostile interview, Trout invoked the image of the Roman […]
Duke University’s Laura Brinn cautions that all the panicking that seems to be going on inside American corporations in response to the financial crisis—”canceling investments, scaling back projects, drawing on […]
The Cato Institute today explores the problem of “invisible” trade barriers. “Although they are part of a large and growing segment of world trade — and a prominent feature in […]
I can already hear Andy Rooney complaining. In the continuing saga of the death of the newspaper, a recent thought experiment takes another punch at the New York Times. According […]
It’s been a busy birthday week between Robert Burns (250 years young), Wilmer Valderrama (29), and the Iranian Revolution (30).But lest you forgot to mark your calendar amid all the […]
Having successfully built itself into a global center of the Hello Kitty trade, Hong Kong is setting its sights on a still greater conquest: the wine world. Dominated by the […]
The Freakonmics blog yesterday highlighted the tragic absurdity of the Google Earth debate. While some British youth use the site to locate private pools to host illegal parties, evidence suggests […]
So what was Will Swope going off about on YouTube’s Davos Question? Intellectual property rights to save the planet from a climate catastrophe? A quick reading of some of the […]
The departure last week of conservative journalist Bill Kristol from the New York Times has New York magazine asking who will be next? “It’s not that “Times readers don’t like […]
Although skeptics say the signs of optimism in the commodities markets could evaporate just a quickly as they appear, gold, tin, and corn are one of the few market sectors […]