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Thursday, June 20, 2013

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Foreign and Defense Policy, International Organizations

World Health Organization obfuscation harms action against dangerous medicines

Roger Bate | January 3, 2013, 11:02 am

In my book Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines, I stress the difference between substandard medical products and deliberately falsified ones. The latter are made by criminal enterprises that have no interest in the contents of their … read more >

Society and Culture

Political correctness in the police blotter

Andrew Biggs | May 2, 2012, 4:03 pm

This past weekend, I read a story in the Washington Post’s police blotter regarding a stabbing that occurred at an Elk’s Club in Annapolis, Maryland. The stabbing wasn’t all that odd—in the DC area you get far worse on a … read more >

Society and Culture

Keep locking ’em up

Charles Murray | December 29, 2011, 10:14 am

I got into a good-natured argument with my friend Pete Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center over lunch last week about the importance of incarceration in explaining the gratifying drop in crime since the 1990s. Pete cited some … read more >

Politics and Public Opinion, Law and the Constitution

Darrell Issa vs. White House Document Dodging, Round One

Bridget Johnson | April 20, 2011, 3:56 pm

Something’s missing around Washington this week. The lawmakers? Spread to the four corners with the winds of recess: John Boehner’s off in Afghanistan, Harry Reid is leading a delegation to China. With our congressional leaders goes the drama, leaving the … read more >

Dreams of a New Atlantic-Pacific Passage
Nicaragua’s legislature has approved a plan for a canal to rival Panama’s. But with challenges including financial viability and seismic stability, the canal may be more valuable as a radiant future than as a reality. […]
How Bureaucrats Captured Government
Like reforming the spoils system of the 19th century, dealing with today’s incompetent, lazy, and corrupt public employees is a good deal easier said than done. As always with human affairs, self-interest rules. […]
A Roundup: Myriad, Monsanto, and the Supreme Court
In recent rulings on patents, the Supreme Court spoke with a rare, single voice, devising a framework that encourages innovation while also ensuring that its fruits are enjoyed fairly by consumers. […]
Putting the Debt in Context
The deficit is shrinking, but federal debt is at an all-time high. More importantly, how large is the debt burden? […]