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Metablog 15 Jul 2013 | 03:29 am
A reader emailed to ask whether I've stopped updating this blog. I don't plan to keep posting here regularly, though I'll certainly keep this site online for as long as Google (Blogger) will let me. H...
"Does democracy work?" 25 Jun 2013 | 09:26 am
No, or at least not very well, according to Bryan Caplan: Democracy clearly works if you set the bar low enough. Is democracy better than dictatorship? Of course. Does democracy allow most people in ...
Tim Russert 13 Jun 2013 | 11:46 pm
Five years ago today, the world was deprived of an important journalistic voice when Tim Russert suddenly died at the age of 58. This is what I wrote at the time about the impact he had on me and many...
"But don't you think that if a government official claims that something has to do with national security, ... 13 Jun 2013 | 02:28 am
... rules of privacy and speech don't matter at all?" So Ben Wikler wryly asks Ben Wizner of the ACLU, which just filed suit against the US government over the Obama administration's surveillance pro...
Paul Krugman on two different kinds of "surveillance states" 11 Jun 2013 | 01:51 am
"There was a really good article written five years ago by Jack Balkin at the Yale Law School. He said that technology means that we’re going to be living in a surveillance state. That’s just gonna ha...
How often do we know who our drone strikes are killing? 7 Jun 2013 | 01:15 am
NBC News reports (via): The CIA did not always know who it was targeting and killing in drone strikes in Pakistan over a 14-month period, an NBC News review of classified intelligence reports shows. ...
What's going on in Turkey? 4 Jun 2013 | 12:07 am
Listen to my friend Ben Wikler interview an activist/radio host in Turkey, Omer Madra, about the uprising going on there right now. (This is a live radio show, starting at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, which wil...
"Bouncing ball politics" 23 May 2013 | 08:45 am
What's bouncing ball politics? Thomas Sowell explains this brilliant metaphor: If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put...
"Did you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?" 22 May 2013 | 06:04 am
After a woman described how she left her now-destroyed house, narrowly escaping the Oklahoma tornado which would have killed her and her infant son if she had followed the family's standard procedure ...
The forgotten lesson from the Clinton impeachment and the 1998 midterms 21 May 2013 | 08:08 am
Ramesh Ponnuru explains why the trifecta of ongoing news stories that are widely seen as harmful to President Obama (Benghazi, IRS, and Associated Press) might not help Republicans in the midterm elec...
