Emily Badger, Author at Pacific Standard

Merely Qualified Need Not Apply

When did being a qualified eminent jurist of the president's choosing become insufficient to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?

A good day in court for Internet providers may lead regulators to a nuclear option those providers dread.

Post 9/11, the United States has been chasing foreign-born scholars away, much to the nation's detriment.

Innovation, and not just drilling the same well deeper, could make energy in America as common, as, well, salt.

From breast pumping to adoption tax credits, the leviathan known as the U.S. health care bill is loaded with little goodies.

The debate about health care often focused on the legislative circus tricks employed by all.

Without instituting a fifth-period forestry class, federal officials want school kids to get outside and observe what's there.

Ongoing efforts to improve measures of poverty in the United States must thread the needle between pragmatism and politics.

The Obama administration's stated push for more government openness hasn't fully manifested itself in the Freedom of Information arena.

The mass of Americans still accept reality of climate change, but a glut of complex polls manages to make that difficult to discern.