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The peril of domestic drones
feature Local police have begun using unmanned Predator drones like those used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to conduct surveillance of criminal suspects right here in the U.S., said Glenn Greenwald in Salon.com.
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How to save the U.S. Postal Service
feature Unlike the post office, which has a monopoly on letter delivery, FedEx and UPS have had to compete for customers by boosting quality and holding prices down, said Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe.
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Seeing racism for what it is
feature Riley Cooper’s case shows just how poorly he and most other Americans understand “what a racist is.”
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Searching for a libertarian paradise
feature Not one of the world’s 193 sovereign states—not even a tiny one—has adopted a full-on libertarian system.
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Our culture’s worship of celebrity
feature It was in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age that the modern concept of celebrity was born.
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Stop whining and pay your taxes
feature 'Tis the season
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Laughing off the horrors of prison rape
feature In our culture, there
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The legacy of Bush v. Gore
feature Ten years after that controversial decision divided the nation, Americans no longer believe in the fairness of our country’s elections, said Richard L. Hasen in Slate.com.
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The hidden benefits of a winning team
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Quote of the week: Jason Gay
feature From The Wall Street Journal: “Remember when golf was going to save Tiger Woods? That was the dubious pop-psych theory last winter ...
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Quote of the week: Nicholas D. Kristof
feature From The New York Times: “In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches. One is the rigid, all-male Vatican hierarchy ...
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Obama’s hypocrisy on gas prices
feature President Obama is pretending to be upset about rising gas prices, said Jack Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but expensive oil actually suits his administration’s goals.
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Bin Laden’s secret stash of porn
feature “Islam has a very rich tradition of sacred sexuality and eroticism,” but extremists have turned that tradition rancid with their misogyny, said Asra Q. Nomani in TheDailyBeast.com.
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Executions should be televised
feature If we are to continue executing criminals in the U.S, we ought to do it in an open and accountable way, said Zachary B. Shemtob and David Lat at The New York Times.
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