No Straw Men

Photos from the U.S. Olympic trials last week in Omaha.

The challenge with the right isn’t activism. The challenge is unifying it.

Speedo’s LZR Racer swimsuit is causing the biggest splash in and out of the pool. Since the rubbery full-body corset was introduced in February, swimmers wearing it have set a stunning 38 world records.

There isn’t much about Cindy’s life lately that can be called private. Talking with her, one gets the sense that if there is anything about her marriage that she would change, it might be to reclaim the privacy that she has lost as the wife of the presump

By a “nudge” Thaler and Sunstein mean a policy intervention into choice architecture that is easy and inexpensive to avoid and that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing an individual’s econ

To support their competing conclusions on the legal issue, different members of the Supreme Court invoked work by each of us on the deterrent effects of the death penalty. Unfortunately, they misread the evidence.

Where is it written that any industry must spend money to subvert its business model? Since when must any company plow scarce resources into helping consumers avoid its products?

Torres is now 41 and the mother of a 2-year-old daughter.. She broke her first of three world records in 1982, at 14, and she has retired from swimming and come back three times, her latest effort built on an obsessive attention to her aging body.

Thanks to Internet search monitoring, we can now investigate private morals. If we can’t do it household by household, we can do it community by community. This has a direct bearing on obscenity law. It’s turning hypocrisy into a verifiable legal issue.

Whenever Tom Palmer sees somebody sporting a Che Guevara T-shirt, he likes to ask, “That’s a great T-shirt; do you have the entire collection? … You know, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot…”

I’m wondering about the president using federal funding to coerce schools into requiring community service for middle and high school students.

McCain’s campaign is once again a swirl of competing spheres of influence, clusters of friends, consultants and media advisers who represent a matrix of clashing ambitions and festering feuds.

If the voters of Minnesota would rather be represented by a hack like Norm Coleman than laugh off a few jokes that didn’t work from Al Franken, then they should stop complaining about being stuck with professional politicians.

Marcus Brauchli was named executive editor of the Washington Post yesterday, returning him to the top ranks of American journalism less than three months after Rupert Murdoch forced him out as the Wall Street Journal’s editor.