- A Possibly Fatal Mistake (Kristof on health care)
- The Cancer Lobby (also by Kristof, about industry lobbying). See also With Affirmative Action, India’s Rich Gain School Slots Meant for Poor
- Hidden in a Nook, Mastery in Plain Sight: Restaurant Review: Ichimura at Brushstroke in TriBeCa (NYC)
- [Tomato] Ammunition for a Trade War Between U.S. and Mexico
- Carbon Taxes and the “Tax Interaction Effect” by Robert P. Murphy
- Wash. Supreme Court: Pollution tax constitutional: The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state’s hazardous substances tax is constitutional.
- Andrew Brimmer, First Black Member on Fed Board, Dies at 86: Dr. Brimmer attended the University of Washington in Seattle on the G.I. Bill of Rights, earning an undergraduate degree in economics in 1950 and a master’s degree the next year.
- ‘Three Strikes of Injustice’ (about 3 Strikes laws in CA)
- Virginia Republican Adopts Cuts in Defense as His Issue
- Young, Gifted and Neglected (by the education system)
- A Woman’s Place: ‘The End of Men,’ by Hanna Rosin. See also Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.
- How would a carbon tax work? Let’s ask British Columbia. (from WonkBlog). See also Carbon tax: The Musical.
- Inspectors Certified Pakistani Factory as Safe Before Disaster (about factory fire)
- Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering
- Taiwan Company Fined $500 Million for Price-Fixing
- Power, Pollution and the Internet
- EconoTrolls: An Illustrated Bestiary (very funny)
- How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement
- The Patent, Used as a Sword
- Scientists Adopt Tiny Island as a Warming Bellwether (about Tatoosh Island, WA)
FANTASTIC talk at University College London tonight! Thank you!!!! Haven’t laughed so hard in months!