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Few newspaper pieces are so (ready for this one?) metatextual as this one about photograph manipulation. Remember Iran’s swarms of test missiles? Remember how there were really only two? Does it...
There are few things more sociologically interesting than a big scandal. I’m not talking about the scandals themselves; the behavior in question is never actually shocking. In fact, considering the...
On August 7, 1832, in Montevideo, Charles Darwin is packing heat. He’s getting grizzled, turning into a rough and tumble explorer. Two weeks earlier he writes: “our beards are all sprouting.—...
The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to require that ethanol be used in gas, as the NY Times reports: “…the goal of reducing the nation’s reliance on oil trumps any effect on...
I have a few. I have had credit card companies fail at the most basic services. And I’m one of the lucky ones. From a very heavily-commented editorial in today’s New York Times: ‘When...
Susan Aaronson, author of Trade Imbalance gave an opinion piece on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday afternoon. Human rights groups may protest the Columbian free trade agreement, and point to Columbia’s...
Where to begin? Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran an expose on the hoops companies jump through to fund executive pensions. They do it quietly, tweak the pensions of lower-level employees (sometimes...
Once every ten years, bishops from across the Anglican communion (that’s the Episcopalians here in the US) meet at Lambeth palace with the Archbishop of Canterbury. This time around things have radically...
Man oh man, Charles had a passive-aggressive girlfriend! Charles had taken a liking to Fanny Owen through his Cambridge years, but as he departed on the Beagle voyage, well… She dumped him. Apparently...
David K. Levine on keeping your monopoly just long enough to benefit from it -- but not so long as to be, well, a monopoly. Further, Dark Knight did it without government intervention!
Patterson and Afilalo were never that optimistic about Doha. They are international law and trade experts at Rutgers, who feel that the WTO procedure is based on an economic situation (beginning at Bretton...
Did you miss Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh‘s presentation at the Hudson Institute July 22? Weinstein, Lynch, Singh and Kaplan I did. But my colleague Sadhika was there, and it was a fantastic discussion. The...
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