Bain, Solyndra, and Fannie Mae: Separated at Birth?
Naked Capitalism pointed out something yesterday that confounds conventional wisdom on what kind of capitalism private equity firms like…
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Surfers and Fracking
Surfer Chadd Konig first gained national attention when he paddled 315 miles from Santa Barbara, California to Mexico…
More Datapoints on the Rise of Diesel
Thanks to a particularly devastating refinery fire in the Bay Area that sucker-punched California supplies, the spot price…
UK Study of Racial Discrimination Curiously Racial
A study of bias in immigration policy by researchers at the UK’s Bristol University concludes that treatment of…
The Joy of “Few-Toothed” Rats
Ed Yong’s piece on non-chewing rats would have been good fodder for our rodent-related Today in Mice: On the Indonesian…
Rich People + More Rich People = Less Giving
Charitable America Here’s another way the rich are different from you and me: they give proportionately less to…
First They Came for the Bahá’í …
For a country trying to swim upstream against a torrent of international approbation, Iran makes some intriguing choices…
Bowling Alone at the Supreme Court
What happens when your findings get away from you? In 2007, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, most…
Who’s Afraid of WCIT-12?
As obscure government meetings go, a mid-winter conclave of telegraph agency bureaucrats feels about as distant from power…
Adding a Crock Pot to the Environmental Arsenal
Today’s Wall Street Journal has another entry in the “if you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em” category of…