France Offering Asylum to Christians Driven from Iraq
They've been told to convert, pay fines, or face death.
Culture
Spying on Everybody Threatens a Free Press Says Groups, Common Sense
Human Rights Watch and ACLU put out joint report
Kids or Criminals? Preschool Suspended a 3-Year-Old… Five Times
If there's any good news on this front, it's that the absurdity of many of these stories has prompted something of a backlash.
Historic NYT Editorial: Feds Should Legalize Marijuana Pronto
Way to get with the times, Times.
Government Menu Mandates Are Not Curing Obesity
Obesity rates may be leveling off or even falling.
Are Teachers Underpaid? Let's Find Out
If teachers believe they aren't making what they're worth, let's free them from union constraints and let them find out what the job market has to offer.
Does Mary Poppins Want a Higher Minimum Wage Or Lower Taxes?
Mary Poppins is actually upset that her paycheck is too low after the government takes its cut.
Friday A/V Club: Hollywood Explains These New-Fangled Computer Thingies
For the filmmakers of the '80s, computers were magic and hackers were wizards.
Move Over, Oswald: Salon Says Tea Party Types Killed Kennedy
Wasn't Kennedy murdered by a self-described Marxist?
Magic in the Moonlight: Good Woody. Lucy: Girl Powers.
Colin Firth joins Allen on the Côte d'Azur, and Scarlett Johansson explores several new mental dimensions.
Why Capitalism is Better than Socialism
Even under ideal conditions, socialism would still suck, says Georgetown's Jason Brennan.
Former Bircher No Longer Believes in Vast Communist Conspiracy, Fears Vast Conservative Conspiracy Instead
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel reviews Claire Conner's memoir.
Another Campus Falls to Anti-Smoking Zealotry—Even E-Cigs Are Banned
Some students are irritated about the ban, but who are they to stand athwart history?
Contemporary Democracy Is a Fraud
Once it grows to a certain size, so-called democratic government begins to soften and weaken the people.
New Poll Shows a Striking Drop in Popularity for JFK Conspiracy Theories
For the first time since the '60s, conspiracy believers can't even muster a plurality.
Stop Segregating Sports by Gender
What American Ninja Warrior tells us about sex segregation.
Is the US Abandoning Afghan Interpreters to Certain Death?
Afghan locals who helped the US were promised visas to America. They may be left behind to fight the Taliban on their own.
You Can't Blame Americans for Not Feeling Exceptional
John Kerry called it like it is, and neocons are throwing a tiresome fit.
How 'Crazy Negroes' With Guns Helped Kill Jim Crow
Civil rights and armed self-defense in the South
Life and Death of a Russian Freedom Fighter
There is a certain symbolism in the fact that Valeria Novodvorskaya died just as the Putin regime was being fully exposed as the gangster state that she had always said it was.
Raw Milk Vending Machines May Hit U.K.
The U.K. Food Standards Agency says vending machines are the best way to make raw milk more widely available to consumers in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Punishing Prostitution Clients Is Not a Feminist Solution
Conceptually the "Nordic Model"-which criminalizes the buying rather than the selling of sexual services-strips women of agency and autonomy.
