By • Oct 07,2008

But… They're Movie Stars!

Although written a few weeks ago, this USA Today article just came to my attention in a National Governors Association newsletter. Hooray for movie locations outside Hollywood According to the...

By • Oct 06,2008

Defining words for our times

Our generation is probably the worst since the Protestant Reformation. It’s barbaric. But a barbarism even worse than the old-fashioned, straight-forward kind. Now barbarism is cloaked with all sorts of...

By • Oct 06,2008

Hail Mary McCain

In many ways, the McCain campaign has been on the ropes since last summer. He’s thrown a number of Hail Mary passes since then (backing the surge, Sarah Palin, “suspending”...

By • Oct 06,2008

Things you can't say

Robert McDonald of the Kellogg School at Northwestern (full disclosure: I once worked there) has an interesting take on the bailout: The problem with commenting on the financial rescue plan...

By • Oct 06,2008

Myanmar's lost year

Chinese colonialism in Burma? Daniel Pepper on the anniversary of the revolt: Democracy advocates in exile hold out hope that China, which is Myanmar’s largest trading partner and its ally...

By • Oct 06,2008

Congestion pricing

Matt Yglesias thinks that commuters don’t pay enough. After comparing highway travel to free ice cream day at Ben and Jerry’s, he writes: Put in a road somewhere and unless...