Men Dominate Campaign Coverage; And So?
Three-quarters of this year’s campaign coverage in newspapers was penned by men, according to a new survey from…
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Keeping Circumcision on the Table
In early 2011 Beryl Lieff Benderly, writing in the pages of Miller-McCune (the precursor to Pacific Standard, described…
Who’s Most Optimistic in America? The Answer Will Break Your Heart
This is a finding that has turned up in a number of studies, and it’s always fascinating: Many…
My Kingdom for a Hearse?
Richard III begins the Shakespeare play that bears his name by declaring, “Now is the winter of our…
Asia’s Changing Views on Animal Testing
According to a new report on animal research around the world, published by the National Academies Press, in a…
Landspeeder!
We still don’t have our flying cars, but who cares now that we’ve got a prototype of a…
Faces of Debt: Beware “the College Loan Repo Man”
For decades, one of the driving impulses of American liberalism has been to expand people’s access to good things…
Terrifying Dots.
This graphic, based on World Bank statistics, is supposed to illustrate a global trend toward fewer children and…
Who Will Cry for the Campus Bookstore?
Over at the New Republic, Mark Athitakis plays a very small violin for a threatened institution: the college…
Ayn Rand Mocked and Reviewed
Yesterday Michael Kinsley posted this Paul Ryan Shrugged (that is oh-so-only-Kinsley) send up of Paul Ryan’s devotion: Paul…