Last night I watched the movie Serpico, a great true crime movie about an honest cop who exposed enormous corruption in the NYPD, leading to significant reforms. I have long been frustrated with the lying, abuse of freedom, and thugishness...

Dialysis Unit Closing Hits Illegal Immigrants Hard is the tragic story of illegal/undocumented immigrants who require dialysis services they cannot afford. It is a genuine tragedy with plenty of hard choices for policy makers. It reminds me of the...

Though we'd like to believe that humans are all the same, drawn from a single distribution where anyone can have any set of qualities, we have found several examples beyond skin color where that is not the case. First the...

Mr. Pham said: “There is a whole transition of men getting into women’s wear. It used to be that the people who did it were just the edgier ones. Now it’s much more common.” Common enough that Mr. Pham and...

"Almost 400 years ago, the king of Sweden, Gustaf II Adolf, planted oak trees in what is now central Stockholm for the explicit purpose of building war ships in the 20th century." Joe Torben in the comments of post How...