The Producers
The decline of marriage and male wages is a problem of equality, not inequality.
By JAMES TARANTO
Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman has expanded the blog post we criticized Wednesday into a full-length column, and in doing so made explicit a predictable fallacy in his thinking. To review, Krugman's argument is that the sharp decline in marriage rates among less-affluent white Americans, documented by Charles Murray in his new book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," is "mainly about money" as opposed to "morals." Here's the meat of Krugman's argument:
Journal Columnist Jeffrey Zaslow Dies at 53
By STEPHEN MILLER and DOUGLAS BELKIN
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow
was tragically killed in an automobile accident on Friday. Kelsey
Hubbard spoke to Deputy Managing Editor Mike Miller about the beloved
journalist, whose work touched and inspired millions of people around
the world.
Low Turnout and the Big Tune-Out
Voters aren't bothering with the GOP, but Obama has lost their attention too.
The Taliban Five
Meet the men the U.S. might release as a goodwill gesture.
Their identities are an open secret, and last week the White House gave a restricted briefing to a few Members of Congress to win their support. The men are among the 46 out of 171 detainees left at Gitmo that an Administration review in 2010 deemed "too dangerous to transfer but not feasible for prosecution." Two years later, these detainees are evidently no longer too dangerous.
These upstanding citizens are:
• Mohammad Fazl, around age 45, was the senior-most Taliban commander in northern Afghanistan and their deputy defense minister when captured in November 2001. He was at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress, outside the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, when hundreds of Taliban prisoners revolted against their captors in the Northern Alliance. CIA operative Johnny Michael Spann died in the melee, becoming the first American casualty of the Afghan war. A confidential annex of the Administration's 2010 review suggests that Fazl may be responsible for Spann's death.
According to his secret 2008 Gitmo file, which was published by WikiLeaks, Fazl also commanded foreign fighters in Afghanistan and "possessed vast power and financial resources."
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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
He was
close to Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader. Before 9/11, Fazl commanded
troops in central Afghanistan who massacred hundreds of Hazaras, a
Shiite Muslim ethnic minority. His Gitmo file also says the Iranian
government suspects him of "being connected" to the killing of its
diplomats in Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998.Immaculate Contraception
An 'accommodation' that makes the birth-control mandate worse.
So you almost have to admire the absurdity of the new plan President Obama floated yesterday: The government will now write a rule that says the best things in life are "free," including contraception. Thus a political mandate will be compounded by an uneconomic one—in other words, behold the soul of ObamaCare.
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President Obama with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelious announce an adjustment to the health care bill on Friday.
Under the original Health and Human
Services regulation, all religious institutions except for houses of
worship would be required to cover birth control, including hospitals,
schools and charities. Under the new rule, which the White House
stresses is "an accommodation" and not a compromise, nonprofit religious
organizations won't have to directly cover birth control and can opt
out. But the insurers they hire to cover their employees can't opt out.
If that sounds like a distinction without a difference, odds are you're a
rational person.Why the World Needs America
Foreign-policy pundits increasingly argue that democracy and free markets could thrive without U.S. predominance. If this sounds too good to be true, writes Robert Kagan, that's because it is.
By ROBERT KAGAN
History shows that world orders, including our own, are transient. They rise and fall, and the institutions they erect, the beliefs and "norms" that guide them, the economic systems they support—they rise and fall, too. The downfall of the Roman Empire brought an end not just to Roman rule but to Roman government and law and to an entire economic system stretching from Northern Europe to North Africa. Culture, the arts, even progress in science and technology, were set back for centuries.
Many of us take for granted how the world
looks today. But it might look a lot different without America at the
top. The Brookings Institution's Robert Kagan talks with Washington
bureau chief Jerry Seib about his new book, "The World America Made,"
and whether a U.S. decline is inevitable.
With the outbreak of World War I, the age of settled peace and advancing liberalism—of European civilization approaching its pinnacle—collapsed into an age of hyper-nationalism, despotism and economic calamity. The once-promising spread of democracy and liberalism halted and then reversed course, leaving a handful of outnumbered and besieged democracies living nervously in the shadow of fascist and totalitarian neighbors. The collapse of the British and European orders in the 20th century did not produce a new dark age—though if Nazi Germany and imperial Japan had prevailed, it might have—but the horrific conflict that it produced was, in its own way, just as devastating.
U.S. Navy
If the U.S. is unable to
maintain its hegemony on the high seas, would other nations fill in the
gaps? On board the USS Germantown in the South China Sea, Tuesday.
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