Analysis & Opinion
Clear-eyed dissent from Supreme Court’s ruling to allow Texas voter ID law
The decision to allow Texas' restrictive voter ID requirements did not articulate the Court’s reasoning, but a blistering dissent made clear that its basis was not Senate Bill 14, but rather the confusion that a change so close to the election might create.
GamerGate: We now know what evil lurks in the heart of man – or trolls
Not all murderous bile is created equal. While readers have vowed to kill or otherwise rough me up over the years, I wouldn't equate those generic promises with what other writers -- especially female ones -- say they face routinely on the Web.
Teddy Roosevelt v. Citizens United
How is it possible that, given overwhelming public concern about the direction of the country, we could be facing historically low turnout in the midterm elections on Nov. 4?
As the midterm elections near, it’s unclear who can vote
With less than three weeks until the midterm elections, the rules for voter ID keep changing — and many key races hang in the balance.
Lessons on stopping epidemics from Kazan’s ‘Panic in the Streets’
The parallels to the Ebola outbreak are creepy: the feeling of helplessness before an unprecedented natural scourge; the concern about finding and quarantining victims; arguments among city officials over how to contain it.
Hospital turns to PR to fight Ebola
Though nonprofit hospitals and their boards insist the mission is to provide quality care, even to those who can't afford it, the metrics that boards set mostly are hard business numbers: revenue and operating profit.
Is Ebola the real ‘World War Z?’ (Spoiler alert: It’s not)
As much as any author would love to crow about how “I predicted this!”, this time, I’m happy to say, my fictional plague could not be more different from the truth.THE LATEST
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COLUMNISTS & CONTRIBUTORS
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Sat, Oct 18, 2014, 3:50 PM UTC
Clear-eyed dissent from Supreme Court’s ruling to allow Texas voter ID law
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC
GamerGate: We now know what evil lurks in the heart of man – or trolls
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Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 10:22 PM UTC
Hospital turns to PR to fight Ebola
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 4:10 AM UTC
As the midterm elections near, it’s unclear who can vote
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Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 6:31 PM UTC
Joining Islamic State is about ‘sex and aggression,’ not religion
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 7:54 PM UTC
Review: The worst of both Mao and markets
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:29 PM UTC
More is less for Credit Suisse’s three co-heads
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Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 6:46 AM UTC
Cheap oil is no tonic for sluggish Asian economies
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Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC
Goldman pulls every lever to make machine run
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Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 2:12 PM UTC
Weaker euro won’t do much to stoke inflation
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