Julian Sanchez chronicles the Obama administration's latest "Kabuki" on reforming Bush-era executive overreach:Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee seemed to abandon hope of bringing any real change to the Patriot Act. A lopsided and depressingly bipartisan majority approved legislation that... Full story...
Jonah Lehrer is disturbed how social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even blogs "quantify our social life" by counting friends, followers, and readers: [Because digital social platforms] exquisitely measure our place within the network, we know exactly who the.
A study on websites that capitalize on bad spelling.
Ilya Somin reflects on the compromise between broad interests and specialization. Somin quotes Magnus Carlsen, the youngest chess player to be ranked number one in the world.
A tribute to gay and lesbian characters in children's television. Bonus Jim Henson character breakdown here.
Sally Satel reviews Gene Heyman's new book on addiction: No amount of reinforcement or punishment can alter the course of an entirely autonomous biological condition.
Robert Darnton reads old papers: To appreciate the importance of a pre-modern blog, consult a database such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online and download a newspaper from eighteenth-century London.
Max Fisher looks ahead: It's not hard to foresee a day when Americans come home and, using an Internet TV system that would probably look a lot like your DVR menu, queue up the latest situation comedy or key in.
Meg Favreau remembers some of the worst:In 1994, Prepared Foods (“the industry's leading ingredient-oriented, food, beverage and nutritional product development publication”) came out with a piece in its Annual highlighting failed product launches from the previous 10 years.
Brownstein: Win or lose, Obama has pursued health care reform as tenaciously as any president has pursued any domestic initiative in decades.
Ezra Klein observes: [W]e really judge the extremism of legislation based on the positioning of Republicans and Democrats.
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