The Stopped Clock

The Michigan Supreme Court has, in recent years, been paring back the ability of lower courts to interpret statutes beyond constructing thei...

Yesterday, Nicholas Kristof brought us a peculiar editorial in which he argued: Iraqis are paying a horrendous price for the good intention...

(George Williness?) I'm not going to dismiss concerns about political diversity on campus, but it is pretty obvious that certain persona...

I know some people are enamored with Joe Lieberman. I even know of an ostensibly "center left" blog whose proprietors were dreamin...

" The most moral army in the world ".

In the United States, exit polls "showed" us that Kerry was going to win a decisive victory over the incumbent President Bush. Th...

Imagine that the police show up at your house, and insist upon searching your closets. They explain that once a year or so, somewhere in the...

In a recent discussion of the No Child Left Behind Act , it was suggested that busting the "educational cartel" would be a step fo...

In a world where it is assumed that medical costs will always go up at a rate which significantly (if not vastly) exceeds inflation, one wou...

Apparently not wishing to be outdone in the idiotorial business by Anne Applebaum's amazing entry on electronic voting , Tom Friedman sh...

The CJR Campaign Desk site, which provided some pretty good analysis of media coverage durign the Presidential election, has announced its ...

Anne Applebaum today suggests that it is okay for us to vote on ATM-style voting machines with no paper record or audit trail, because she o...

Apparently things work like this at the Washington Post. They find an interesting topic, find a person with good qualifications to author a ...

Amazing. Apparently some educators believe that "No Child Left Behind" is supposed to work like this : A school is declared "...

Maps with commentary from Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman at the University of Michigan.

Today, David Broder takes on the issue of redistricting - the creation of "safe districts" where the incumbent often runs unoppos...

In " The Puritanism of the Rich ", George Monbiot challenges the notion that Bush embraces "soft fascism" (or any other ...

According to The Guardian, in an article on China's "one child" policy : "Liberalism," [Chairman Mao] wrote in his 1...

While taking Emma to the hospital for her hearing test (a standard screening), I had to maneuver through some crowded spaces. Emma was in he...

What are purple mountain majesties, anyway, if not a symbol of America? Some fascinating maps of the red, blue and purple that constitutes ...