If you have young children, or have given some thought to starting a family, the looming specter of paying for your son or daughter’s college tuition 15 or 18 years down the line no doubt keeps you wide awake some nights. You may have considered putting money into a “529 plan”, an investment vehicle designed […]

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held its annual meeting on March 14-16, 2013, in Washington. Widely reported on in the media, its main agenda was fiscal conservatives and social conservatives assuring each other that they could collaborate in reviving the Republican Party despite their different emphases on issues, respectively, north and south of the […]

Gay marriage is coming, like it or not.

One of the most outspoken advocates for the Western effort to rid Libya of the Great Loon is now barred from entering the country…because he is a Jew. The Independent reports (h/t National Review): [French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri] Lévy was a vocal advocate of the French and British-led military intervention which helped to topple the Libyan dictator […]

The left is still in denial about the Democratic machine that ate Detroit. The NYT often laments the plight of public employees but turns a blind eye to the criminals who looted their pension funds. Now The Nation bemoans the austerity measures made by Detroit’s new “emergency manager” without a single word about corruption, the disgrace of its former mayor, or the theft […]

On Wonkblog, Ezra Klein highlights a new implant developed by Swiss scientists that can measure blood chemicals linked to heart attacks and send the result to your phone: Consider how dramatically these devices will change medicine. Right now, the medical industry is fundamentally reactive. Something goes wrong, and we go to them to fix it. This will make medicine […]

Xi Jinping’s first foreign trip as China’s head of state was to Moscow, where he signed a number of energy agreements last Friday. We didn’t make much of it at the time. The two countries have a history of making overtures without following up, and the odds against a true strategic alliance are still long. […]

A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives last week to allow Congressmen to work from home via the internet. How far we’ve come from this memorable 2006 outburst from the late Senator Ted Stevens:As FCW reports, a Representative is pushing Congress towards the 21st century: Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) introduced a resolution on March 21 […]

The age-old promise of the college wage premium is slowly dying. The WSJ estimates that nearly half of college graduates with jobs are underemployed—that is, working in jobs for which their degree isn’t typically necessary: Economists have generally assumed the problem was temporary: As the economy improved, companies would need more highly educated employees. But in […]

The Economist is adding its voice to the growing chorus of critics of U.S. corn ethanol policy: The 36 billion gallons of ethanol-equivalent biofuels the EPA requires to be produced by 2022 is now almost certainly a lost cause….Rather than rig things still further, as the farm lobby would like, there is one simple fix the EPA can […]