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21 Sep 2007, 6:03 pm
per page.Once again, the NY Times says, it will quit charging for much of its content.Here in this Megan [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:48 am
effectively tax-exempt (especially if their stock got stepped-up basis at death).Recommended reading for McArdle [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 7:31 am
It’s a topic the public feels strongly about. But it’s also a topic on which the public’s feelings have swung quite rapidly. Hmm. Americans began to favor abolishing the death penalty in the 1960s, and then, abruptly, shifted back to supporting it. That continued for decades, but the trend has just reversed: In recent years, ... [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 3:10 pm
For the second time in three years, U.S. life expectancy has declined. The last time that happened, World War I was raging in Europe and a virulent flu pandemic was ravaging the home front. This time around, the diseases stalking us are internal. The number of people who took their own life increased by more ... [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 3:11 pm
In an 1827 essay titled “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth,” English author William Hazlitt noted that “no young man believes he shall ever die . . . to be young is to be as one of the immortal gods.” That glorious fearlessness is the natural inheritance of every generation of youth. Except maybe ... [read post]
24 May 2018, 10:01 am
If you are reading this, the odds are high that you are a member of the animal kingdom: phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, species Homo sapiens. We all know this, even if we’ve forgotten our high school biology. So why did so many people get so angry when President Donald Trump said “These are animals” in ... [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 10:03 pm
Bainbridge, Jonathan Zasloff, Megan McArdle, and Zasloff again. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 1:05 pm
EconTalk: Megan McArdle, who writes the blog Asymmetrical Information at The Atlantic, talks with EconTalk [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 2:06 pm
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, the scars of the riots that followed are only now fully healed in Washington. In other cities, they still aren’t. And we still don’t know exactly why they happened — or for that matter why the 1960s as a whole saw ... [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 8:31 am
Jim Henley, Julian Sanchez (who takes the hard-line view), and Megan McArdle (and Part 2); McArdle points [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 7:55 am
19 Aug 2008, 7:48 am
"Says Megan McArdle, and I completely disagree. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 4:52 pm
Boli's Celebrated Magazine, for the discovery of which please join me in thanking Megan McArdle. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 4:52 pm
Boli's Celebrated Magazine, for the discovery of which please join me in thanking Megan McArdle. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 12:51 pm
(03:46)Irreligious Megan defends religion's role in politics (13:53)The psychology of online trolls [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 2:09 pm
It’s hard to see how to develop the Northeast Corridor without building more mass transit. Air travel — well, I don’t need to tell you what air travel is like these days. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 2:47 pm
When Donald Trump was elected, journalists who write about politics were inundated with warnings about “normalizing” his administration: This was no time for “both-sideism” or anything else treating the Trump presidency as, well, a presidency, instead of a national emergency. Apparently, New Yorker editor David Remnick didn’t get the memo. On Monday, the magazine announced ... [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 10:07 am
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has stirred plenty of debate about the fate of Roe v. Wade. But there is another landmark case that is apt to trouble the court in coming years: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The 1978 ruling struck down explicit quotas for college and graduate school ... [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 1:50 pm
Me too. Me too. Me too. When our friends and colleagues are the accusers, when our neighbors and peers are the accused, the problem stares us in the face from a proximity so intimate that we cannot dismiss it with a simplistic response. All that’s clear is that the problem is real, and the solutions ... [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 3:58 pm
 My feelings about consumer debt are much the same as Megan McArdle’s, particularly [read post]
