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The GOP’s search for Conan
feature Romney just doesn’t reflect the “rage and paranoia” that have deformed the GOP since Barack Obama’s election, said Michael Medved at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Libya’s lesson for North Korea
feature Once again, the U.S. has proved that dictators have only one “true security guarantee”: nukes, said Mira Rapp-Hooper and Kenneth N. Waltz at TheAtlantic.com.
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Viewpoint: Ezra Klein
feature From the WashingtonPost.com: “The next president, whoever he is, will enjoy a ‘recovery presidency,’ and so too will his party....
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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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California can’t afford bullet trains
feature High-speed rail is nothing but a gold-plated fantasy, and “it’s still not too late to hit the brakes,” said Charles Lane at The Washington Post.
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The most entertaining drama on TV
feature Ratings for the GOP debates are setting new records, and no wonder: They’re “the best thing happening in pop culture right now,” said Rob Walker at The New York Times.
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Romney’s $10,000 mistake
feature Romney’s rivals quickly pounced on his wager as proof that he’s “out of touch,” said Garance Franke-Ruta at TheAtlantic.com.
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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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The smearing of Zero Dark Thirty
feature Kathryn Bigelow's film has become “collateral damage” in the political debate over the morality of torture.
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A lesson in how to die
feature In my father-in-law’s final six days, he joked and laughed, said good-bye, then peacefully slipped away surrounded by his family.
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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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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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Political science isn’t science
feature In May, Congress voted to eliminate $11 million in government grants for political science research.
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Quote of the week: Peggy Noonan
feature From The Wall Street Journal: Democracy cannot healthily endure without free and unfettered debate. But knowing where the line is...
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