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Four or five years ago, I thought I had an interesting business idea: private unemployment insurance. Fortunately, before I spent any time o...

From the AP, "3 NJ mayors, lawmakers arrested in corruption case" : By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press Writer David Porter, Assoc...

Cue the world's smallest violin for Walter Kirn while you read these excerpts from his column in today's New York Times Magazine ( ...

The Metro section of Sunday's New York Times featured brief profiles and a group interview with the seven NYC valedictorians pictured a...

In recent posts (e.g., this one ) we noted the views of Paul Krugman, John Taylor, and others on whether the Fed's responses to the fina...

The Styles section of Sunday's New York Times featured an article about Unithrive , an organization founded by the three Harvard alumni...

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade is taking place today in New York City. A few years ago, we headed into Manhattan on a Sunday without ...

Sam Mendes (of "American Beauty" fame) apparently has a new movie out (one I have no intention of seeing), based on a story by Dav...

Over the weekend, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, in an op/ed in the Wall Street Journal ( "How Republicans Can Build a Big-Tent Pa...

Sometimes I get the sense that the editors of the New York Times don't read much of other sections of their own paper. If they did, why...

In his column in yesterday's New York Times business section ( Strategies: "The Road Back from the '29 Crash Wasn't So Lon...

That was the headline of Megan McCardle's post on her Atlantic blog in response to Paul Krugman's New York Times column today abo...

That headline appeared above a photo of gym-goers working out on treadmills and stair masters at the soon-to-be foreclosed on Fayetteville A...

From what appears to be Ross Douthat's penultimate post on his Atlantic blog, before his move to the New York Times op/ed page ( ...

Tomorrow's New York Times Magazine features a cover article on the physicist Freeman Dyson, by Nicholas Dawidoff, "The Civil Heret...

In a recent post ( "More Obama Supporters Concerned by the President's Recent Actions" ) we noted that Warren Buffett and Jim ...

Interesting piece by Michael Calderone on The Politico yesterday, on how liberal commentators compare notes and hone their message, "J...

In a post last month ( "An African Economist on Western Aid to Africa" ), we mentioned the Zambian-born economist and author Dambi...

New York Times columnist David Brooks announced his "Sydney Awards" in a recent column ( "The Sidney Awards" ) for the ...

In an op/ed piece in the New York Times earlier this week, former Foreign Minister of Mexico (and current NYU professor) Jorge Castañeda ca...