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Archives for December 2014


The internet’s underworld allows people to buy drugs and download child pornography.


This may be the greatest economics conference session (and paper title) you’ve ever seen.




Plus, the latest on the Steve Scalise scandal, and the search and rescue effort in Indonesia continues.


Illinois dominates the best-metro-areas list. Louisiana metro areas fared worst.


Meet the blogging politician who terrifies the Kremlin.


New issues deserve genuine new ideas. We’re not getting them.


Congress tried to block legalization in a December spending deal.




Reports have emerged that the number three Republican in House leadership spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002.


Putting the new statistics in context


Thousands of Muscovites are braving sub-zero temperatures — and riot police — to rally.


Discoveries have revived interest in the idea that microbes could be living there right now


The film was resurrected, in part, because of a petition signed by theater owners.


There are now just 99 reactors left in the United States — and more could close in the years ahead. That could be bad news for climate change.