The Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death, but in California playing fast and loose with wage and salary rules makes for a pretty nifty retirement for state employees. . . .
With health care dominating the headlines, it was easy to miss the unfolding drama between Congress and the Obama administration about the legal war on terror. . . .
NOT TOO MANY years ago the dean of an Ivy League college described a no-holds barred battle at his institution over tenure for an African-American candidate. . . .
“Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets” was the title for the 2010 L.K. Jha Lecture, which I gave this week at the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai. . . .
In going through memos I wrote at the Council of Economic Advisers, I came across the following memo that I wrote to Jeff Frankel, who replaced Paul Krugman as the International Finance economist at the CEA. . . .
Let's hope Odierno's request surprises the administration into paying closer attention at this crucial juncture and giving the commander of U.S. Forces Iraq the resources he needs to manage well the endgame of the Iraq war. . . .
It was a slow news day here in Northern California — rain, rain, and even more rain — until Team Whitman dropped this bomb on Team Poizner: Can’t Trust Steve. . . .
Dr. Kiron Skinner, fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, breaks down Reagan’s approach to foreign policy and national security. . . .
THE people of Bangladesh have just celebrated one of the most important events in our history, February 21, International Mother Language Day, a day that in the opinion of many had sowed the seeds of the liberation war. . . .
As I watched the C-SPAN health-care summit charade Thursday, what disturbed me most was not the typical partisan ranker, but why the federal government was even dealing with this issue at all. . . .
Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of bailouts in recent times, beginning with Lockheed and Chrysler in the 1970s and continuing through the current financial crisis. . . .
Beyond the question of what age and experience have done for his growth as a politician, Brown — a master at the art of reinvention — remarkably could be seen as an unknown quantity as he prepares to enter California's gubernatorial race. . . .
Since 9/11, Davis, director of the Hoover Institution's group on military history and contemporary conflict, has emerged as a major commentator on war making and politics. . . .
Some 2,000 years ago, the great Ancient Library in Alexandria, Egypt burnt to the ground, taking with it a vast reservoir of irreplaceable information, subsequently reduced to ashes, lost to history, and leaving the rest of us groping in ignorance at many questions we've ever since scrambled in vain to piece back together. . . .
On the day last week when President Obama was hosting his health-care summit -- and struggling to make a fractured political system work -- a quiet event was taking place on Capitol Hill that celebrated a moment when political will and idealism fused to produce the liberation of millions of people. . . .
"I hope this isn't just political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras," President Barack Obama said as he opened his health care summit Thursday. . . .
No matter how loud the American people scream (literally), President Obama and liberal Democrats won’t give up their pursuit of this massive new government program. . . .
