[Bumped up.] I couldn’t help but notice the amount of boomer-directed venom expressed in the comments section of yesterday’s thread. I’ve noticed it many times before. Actually, I’ve noticed it almost every time I write about—well, about my generation. And … Continue reading →
Please please do yourself a favor and read Megan McArdle’s comprehensive and penetrating analysis of that Medicaid outcome study. And afterward, please send it to some other people whom you think might actually be inclined to read it.
Continue reading →…have some pretty good credentials: Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the … Continue reading →
It’s particularly true for men in their 50s, for whom the rate has jumped by a factor of 50% (up to 30 per 100,000) during the first decade of the twenty-first century. For women ages 60-64 the rate jumped 60% … Continue reading →
Remember the election in Venezuela? Well, it’s not over yet: The self-declared winner, Nicolé¡s Maduro, is behaving very much like a man who knows he lost on April 14. In resorting to violence and brute force to silence the opposition’s … Continue reading →
For the better part of a century the Middle East has been like a girl who was an ugly duckling turned into a swan, courted by all and sundry because of her newfound beauty and unaware that her looks might … Continue reading →
The blogosphere is chattering about a study that purports to show that covering more people under Medicaid hasn’t resulted in any significant health benefits after all, or certainly only minor ones. There was a small reduction in the incidence of … Continue reading →
…and both Obama and Hillary failed to pick up the phone. What difference does it make? Perhaps some day we’ll find out.
Continue reading →There’s an encouraging new possibility for heart failure patients: Doctors will inject participants with harmless viruses that ferry a gene called SERCA2a into their heart muscle. The gene codes for a protein that recycles calcium within heart muscle cells, vital … Continue reading →
Brenda Heist vanished over ten years ago. Despite a huge search she was never found, and was finally presumed (and even legally declared) dead. Brenda and her husband had been on the brink of divorce, and he remarried. Her two … Continue reading →
After the fact? And how much did they know before? And how many people would try to protect a friend who was the Boston bomber?
Continue reading →Dzhohkar Tsarnaev didn’t just blow up hundreds of people in Boston. He also revived support for the death penalty (at least for himself), with 70% of Americans polling in favor of it in his particular case. Republicans are most in … Continue reading →