SULLUM: How SCOTUS promoted pernicious myths about sex offender registries
This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that approved retroactive application of Alaska’s sex offender registry, deeming...
CHAREN: Jimmy Carter’s legacy
In 2015, at the age of 90, former president Jimmy Carter released a statement saying that he had metastatic melanoma and that the cancer...
ESTRICH: Trump and the curse of the front-runner
Donald Trump is about to discover the flip side of being the front-runner in a potentially crowded field.
The good news is that front-runners often...
TONI SAYS: What is Medicare’s “creditable” prescription drug coverage?
BY TONI KING
Hello Toni:
I turned 65 in August 2021, continued to work full-time with an HSA that has a $3,000 deductible for medical claims...
THE IDLE AMERICAN: Uncle Mort on balloons
“Until recently, balloons were festive, often gleefully ‘popped’ at parties,” he moaned. “Stick a pin in one now, and folks nearby crawl under tables,...
ESTRICH: A national divorce?
This is what Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had to tweet on Presidents Day:
“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states...
CHAREN: Patrick Mahomes’ and Jalen Hurts’ most important teams were their parents
My husband went to California on a business trip a few weeks ago. While he was away, I found myself doing something completely out...
ESTRICH: We can do better for teenage girls
It has never been harder to be a teenage girl. The latest study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is terrifying. Twice...
THE IDLE AMERICAN: Uncle Mort writes again
Central to my Uncle Mort’s colorful life—now stretching over two centuries—are his scatter-brained decisions to “go off fourth-cocked,” even when “half-cocked” action might be...
ELDER: Biden claims GOP wants to ‘sunset’ entitlements: What about Clinton, Obama and then-Sen....
During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, he got booed after accusing “some” Republicans of seeking to “sunset” some of the so-called...