Month: November 2017
Tax Reform Is on Track to Add $1 Trillion to the National Debt, Even After Accounting for Economic Growth
The GOP tax plan looks like it could pass, but should it?
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Critical Data Is Missing From The FBI's Annual Crime Report And Researchers Want it Back
An organization of criminologists say key data missing from the FBI's annual crime report will make it harder to study murders and drug arrests.
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Are Brain Implants to Control Moods Ethical?
If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.
Declining to Bake a Gay Wedding Cake Is Not the Same As Banning Gay Marriage
The point seems to elude The New York Times.
Kinder Eggs Coming to America? Sadly, No—Ban on Chocolate Candies Still Persists
Smuggling some Kinder Surprise Eggs into America could still earn you a fine of $2,500 per chocolate egg.
American Professor Charged With Crime for Giving Speech to Danish Parliament
The speech amounted to an illegal side job, according to Danish officials.
CIA Director Tom Cotton: A Disaster for Foreign Policy or a Boon for Better Lawmaking?
The Senate would lose an authoritarian who wants to crack down on immigrants and fight the drug war. But he's also a hawk in favor of foreign interventions.
Antifa Wants 'Bleeding Heart Libertarian' Professor Fired. We're Not Exactly Sure Why.
He did make the mistake of having his picture taken with Milo Yiannopoulos.
Former Penn State VP Jailed for Sandusky Child Sex Scandal Gets $300K Annual Pension
One of the highest retirement payouts in the state. Pennsylvania is dealing with $70 billion in pension debt.
Bitcoin Sends Elite Economists Into Glorious Fits of Confusion
Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite.
Markets Deliver Social Justice Better Than Government Does
Elizabeth Nolan Brown argues in The New York Times that we can thank "feminism, but also free markets" for the ongoing purge of predatory men.
Coming Soon to SCOTUS: Federal Sports Betting Ban vs. the 10th Amendment
What's at stake next week in Christie v. N.C.A.A.
D.C. Miracle Turnaround School Exposed as a Fraud
A investigation released today shows how Ballou High School graduated a whole class of seniors despite rampant absenteeism and failing test scores.
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Are Dry Stream Beds Navigable Waters of the United States?
According to federal regulations, they are. But Congress is now subjecting that rule to scrutiny.
Trump Wants More Money for Corrupt Border Patrol
Congress should tell him to take a hike.
A Bipartisan Tradition of Enabling Spendaholics
Republicans prove that when they're in power, they like to spend just as much as Democrats do.
Trump Administration Lawyer Pummeled by Sotomayor and Gorsuch in Cellphone Tracking Case
"Most Americans, I think, still want to avoid Big Brother."
The Justice Department's New Opioid 'Tools' Are All About Escalating the Drug War
Expect more raids and more arrests.
Can't Pay Your Student Loans? In Some States, That Means You Can't Work Either.
Taking away someone's ability to earn money seems like a shortsighted way to get loans repaid.
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The GOP's Deficit Trigger is a Self-Deceiving Budget Gimmick
Republicans want to create the illusion of deficit control.
No, Chief Justice John Roberts Is Not a 'Secret Liberal'
The chief justice is a legal conservative who sometimes practices judicial deference.
Man Says He Was Choked Until He Pooped His Pants for Trying to Pay Parking Ticket With Pennies
No one is pettier than government.
Los Angeles Mulls Multi-Million-Dollar Hotel Subsidy
Payouts to developers are never a win for taxpayers.
Philly's Drug War: It's Costly, It's Corrupt, and It's Putting Innocent People Behind Bars
Allegations of police misconduct get around 1,000 cases thrown out.
Will This Awful Bill Allowing Warrantless Domestic Snooping Get Shoved Into an End-of-Year Spending Plan?
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
Churchill's Antidote to Political Rage
Things are not more serious than they were in Britain in 1940.
71 Percent of Millennials Say U.S. Politics Needs a Third Major Party
White men and black women were the most likely to endorse America moving beyond the Dem-GOP binary.
Chicano Yaktivists Be Damned; Regular Mexicans Are Wild for Coco, Disney
Coco is legit, which is why people are seeing it in droves.
Alabama Senate Election Shouldn't Be a Binary Choice
The two-party system isn't responsive to consumer (voter) needs.
America Has Made the World a Better Place
Even Trump can't take that away from it
Hawaii, Which Registers Guns and Medical Marijuana Users, Starts Disarming Patients
Citing state law, Honolulu's police chief tells them to turn in their guns.
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