Tim Cavanaugh

Politics

California Roundup: $8 Billion Rail Project Results In Fewer People Riding Public Transportation

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.23.2010 5:40 PM

Policy

Wendy McElroy: Under "Cooperation" Act, Cops Can Punch You In the Face Whenever They Want

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.23.2010 3:59 PM

Politics

Do Public Sector Unions Drive States Into Bankruptcy?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.22.2010 8:40 PM

Politics

California Roundup: Will Golden State Fall Behind On License Plate Advertising? Cortines: No More!

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.22.2010 2:22 PM

Politics

California Roundup: New Judge, Fiorina Waffle, Water-and-Power Struggle

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.21.2010 1:58 PM

Politics

Why Would 80 Police Officers Cost Oakland $100 Million?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.20.2010 11:18 PM

Politics

California Roundup: Broken Teabag; Feeble Computer Excuse; No Pot For You!

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.19.2010 2:08 PM

Politics

The New Powerlessness: Even Better Than the New Normal

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.18.2010 3:09 PM

Politics

California Roundup: Raging nurses, weed for the workers, Boxer's $10 million advantage

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.16.2010 6:53 PM

Politics

Death Before Deflation

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.16.2010 4:49 PM

Politics

California Roundup: Broken Home Buyers, Green Swindle, Don't Mess With Texas

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.15.2010 6:48 PM

Policy

Greenspan Chair: So They Can Stop Blaming Him On Libertarians and Start Blaming Him on NYU

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.15.2010 3:57 PM

Politics

When the Gold Rush Ends, the Pick and Shovel Dealers Suffer Most

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.14.2010 10:17 PM

Politics

New Proposition Would Make It Easier to Burn Up Money

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.14.2010 9:35 PM

Politics

Willie Brown On "Out of Control" Civil Servants

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.13.2010 8:59 PM

Politics

Mystery Train

How has California's high-speed rail project survived for 14 years without a plan, a budget, or a single accomplishment?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.13.2010 7:00 AM

Culture

If They Say There's a Big Crowd At the Skeptics' Conference, Should You Believe Them?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.9.2010 7:53 PM

Politics

Hacker Curve: Quitting Smoking Is Bad for The Children

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.6.2010 10:53 PM

Politics

Ebert's Libertarian Temptation

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.6.2010 9:29 PM

Politics

Los Angeles Times Now Favors Rule By Robots

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.6.2010 8:45 PM

Politics

California State Workers Still Overpaid At $7.25 Per Hour

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.3.2010 11:13 AM

Politics

No Confidence in California

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.2.2010 9:53 PM

Politics

California Still Going Off the Rails On a Crazy Train

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2010 8:34 PM

Politics

Get More, Spend More, Lay Waste Your Powers

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2010 5:56 PM

Economics

Pundits Plussed, Workers Gruntled By Precedented Jobless Claims

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2010 1:59 PM

Policy

The Home Buyer Tax Credit Has Risen From the Grave!

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.30.2010 5:20 PM

Politics

If You Don't Give Us 150 Percent Pensions, We'll Kill This Child

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.25.2010 3:17 PM

Politics

Loan Mods Beaten Up By Loan Rockers

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.25.2010 12:28 PM

Politics

Paul Krugman Now Laughingstock On Two Continents

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.24.2010 5:53 PM

Culture

The Slow Fade of Meatspace

When will this Internet thing catch on?

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.22.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

What's a Diploma Worth?

Americans have always loved college and real estate. So why do these assets need government support?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.20.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Why Isn't the Government Hiring Short Sellers?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.12.2010 5:45 PM

Policy

Lesbian Lord of the Rings Programmers Creating Open Source Star Wars Apps, or, Can Nonprofit Status Make Newspapers Any Less Lame?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.12.2010 10:35 AM

Politics

Kagan on IP

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.11.2010 6:48 PM

Policy

Mozart Effect: As Bogus As the Plot of Amadeus

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.11.2010 3:10 PM

Policy

Sympathy for the Deadbeat: 60 Minutes On Strategic Defaults

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.11.2010 10:27 AM

Politics

Fannie Mae: Now How Much Would You Pay?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.10.2010 9:31 PM

Politics

Rater Haters Finally Find a Reason to Turn On Moody's, and It's a Bad Reason

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.10.2010 3:41 PM

Politics

California: The American Greece

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.9.2010 9:47 PM

Politics

Will Janet Napolitano Be Fired For Times Square Incompetence?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.9.2010 1:53 PM

Civil Liberties

Congratulations to Radley Balko, Winner of WPA Maggie Award for "Forensics Fraud?"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.8.2010 12:23 PM

Politics

Is Paul Krugman, the Doctor, America's Most Politicized Economist?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.7.2010 8:15 PM

Politics

Silver Bullet Train! California's Low-Flying Rail Boondoggle Gets Off to High-Paying Start

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.7.2010 1:36 PM

Civil Liberties

Making Fun of In-Laws Still Protected Speech…For Now

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.7.2010 9:57 AM

Politics

"The current government debt bubble is the last of all possible bubbles."

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.6.2010 11:55 PM

Economics

Dow Plunge Open Thread

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.6.2010 3:04 PM

Politics

Put Him In Bed With the Captain's Daughter: J.K. Galbraith Binge-Drinks to the Death of the CBO

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.6.2010 12:01 PM

Politics

Checking In With Osama bin Laden!

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.5.2010 9:05 PM