If you missed the news, even NASCAR has now come out against North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom” law, HB2. (See these reports from WRAL television, The News & Observer of Raleigh, and The Charlotte Observer.) Various businesses, sporting organizations, entertainers, and … Continue reading
Back in 2009 Harvard Business School professor published an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (link to PDF) on the economics of on-line pornography. Probably its most reported observation was that by multiple measures, the conservative and heavily religious … Continue reading
In the summer of last year some news media took note of a sharp increase in murders in some major cities, such as Baltimore and Houston, since the start of the year, and they suggested crime was on the rise … Continue reading
Here’s another interesting post from pediatrician and med school professor Aaron Carroll describing recent research published in JAMA involving a huge sample of Americans — almost everybody middle aged and older — based on data from the Social Security Administration … Continue reading
Here’s another case to boil one’s blood: A trio of landlords want to convert a San Francisco apartment building into condos, so they’ve been trying to evict a renter. But this particular renter, a 99-year-old woman who has lived there … Continue reading
Eddie Lee Holloway, a 58-year-old American citizen and registered voter living in Wisconsin, voted regularly until his state passed a voter ID law in 2011. Now he can’t vote, because he doesn’t have one of the acceptable IDs and can’t … Continue reading
If you try to access a non-existent page on a website the web server will send you a 404 error code together with a default page that’s the web equivalent of a recorded telephone message like “The number you’ve reached … Continue reading
Here in the U.S. we spend about the same percentage of the gross domestic product on Medicare alone as other advanced countries spend on all healthcare put together, from all sources — government, private insurance, and out-of-pocket spending by patients. … Continue reading
Here’s yet another piece from John Oliver, this one from February but with content that’s very much still relevant. As usual, Oliver somehow manages to be entertaining while offering up a lot of valuable information on a very serious subject. … Continue reading
(Updated 2016 April 1 to add some additional point and try to improve the explanation below the video.) Here’s a video with a surprise ending — a big surprise, in fact. The question addressed is this: What if you’re take … Continue reading