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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in Iraq dropping big hints that the Obama Administration wants the Iraqis to request U.S. troops stay ...

From the WSJ : BANGALORE, India—Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. is desperate to find new recruits who can answer questions by ph...

Audacious Epigone points out the recent fall off in Hispanic fertility after the popping of the Bush Bubbles. In 2007 , at the climax of H...

Steve Hsu has a fascinating  post  on a new paper by Nobel laureate economist/statistician James Heckman on the historic 1921  Terman Projec...

A German commenter, Headache, offers an alternative history of the Libyan War, in which it has already been won: This was France's war, ...

A reader named Matthew Slater has kindly translated into readable English the reasons for "birth tourism" from the website Chinese...

From the LA Times , a story that cracked me up not because of the politics but because of trying to imagine the puzzlement of the Chinese au...

The Boston Globe reports: In a report released Wednesday, the Institute for Economics and Peace says Maine is the most peaceful state, whil...

In my new column in Taki's Magazine , I briefly look at what we can learn about the origins of political order from our own experiences ...

Perhaps one reason for the Obama Administration starting the Libyan War was to avoid a situation like in Iraq from 1991-2003, where internat...

Jonathan Last points to Michael Kinsley's new oped in the LA Times, in which Kinsley explains that his old boss at Slate , Bill Gates, w...

I'm reading Francis Fukuyama's upcoming book The Origins of Political Order , and I got interested in the differences between family...

From the Washington Post : Without influxes of Hispanics and Asians, some U.S. cities would be smaller By Carol Morello and Dan Keating  Mo...

There's no transcript yet available for Charles Murray's speech yesterday at the American Enterprie Institute on "The State of ...

Joan Lowy reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution   on something that caught my eye for personal reasons: Southwest grounded nearly 80 B...

Michael Barone writes about the Census results: Finally there is an assumption -- which is particularly strong among those who expect a majo...

Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen , is a distinguished science journalist in the Anglo-Darwinian tradition of Richard Dawkins. He's a...

This MSNBC article by Michael Isikoff was pretty ho-hum for awhile: As he prepares to launch a campaign for president, Newt Gingrich is coun...