Could there be a better time for an economist ( now ) sympathetic to Obama to win the Nobel Prize? I don't think so! Let's hope that Krugman …
Read moreThe New York Times has an important story today about Andy Martin, an apparently unbalanced anti-Semite who nevertheless has managed, beginning in …
Read more"When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appe…
Read moreI've been waiting to comment on Tim Dickinson's hit piece on McCain in Rolling Stone , "Make-Believe Maverick," until I had a chan…
Read moreThe New York Times reports today that law enforcement officers in Chicago will no longer evict residents from foreclosed properties. The move was a…
Read moreThe Adler Planetarium in Chicago released this statement today (with thanks to DanO for alerting us to this on Marc Cooper's blog .) It is an ex…
Read more9:17 PM-- I would say that both candidates are off to a shaky start. Obama is struggling to make his own points while fighting off McCain's atta…
Read moreNote that Betty was elected in the midst of the Great Depression.
Read moreSome Obama supporters are debating the wisdom of "dragging out" the 1990s Keating Five scandal at this point in the campaign, in the form o…
Read moreAlthough I have shifted my focus to archaeology and human evolution in recent years, I served for a long time as Science 's backup man on AIDS co…
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