Game Theorist on Shutdown: “It’s Not Brinkmanship”
Boehner’s ability to end the standoff makes his bargaining power lower, not higher
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Viewpoint: Judaism is Too Afraid Of Assimilation
The religion needs to stop using this frightened, scarcity-based logic to try to engage people. It doesn’t work
Newt Gingrich to House Republicans: “Don’t Cave!”
The former Speaker of the House tells Republicans that giving in will make things worse
Breaking Bad Writer: Why It Had to End
A rule in the writers’ room was to never force the characters, but to let them take us there — and Walt was taking us to the end of the road
Can Climate Skeptics Save the Planet?
The people who are most concerned about global warming are also typically opposed to the technologies most capable of reducing emissions
Albuquerque Really Is Like Breaking Bad
The TV show has given me a way to explain my hometown without saying a word
The Real Source of Heroic Behavior
We tend to think of heroes as larger-than-life figures who accomplish physical feats, such as the man who pulled two women trapped in a car from the Colorado floods, or the policeman who rescued a woman and her two children from the mall under fire in Nairobi. And those rescuers are indeed heroic, but we should also be thinking about
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The World’s Emerging Democracies Don’t Like Us Either
Suspicions of American intentions in Brazil and elsewhere run deep after revelations about NSA data-gathering in those countries
Co-Sleeping Collides With Custody Battles
What happens when attachment parenting comes before a family court judge?
What Pope Francis Thinks About Women in the Church
Will he give them real leadership roles or just continue to placate them by idealizing their gender?
How Washington Caved to Wall Street
In TIME’s recent cover story “How Wall Street Won,” Rana Foroohar gave an excellent appraisal of the last five years since Lehman collapsed. While her analysis hit at five of the major shortfalls in our “reformed” financial sector, there was even more she could have pointed to: Five years after the crisis, why have we not even begun …
Broken Adoptions: When Parents “Re-Home” Adopted Children
Parents who give up their adopted children have been making the news with increasing frequency of late. There’s Torry Ann Hansen, the now-infamous Tennessee nurse who sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to his native Russia on a plane, alone. Then there’s Joyce Maynard, the writer who made headlines last year when she admitted to …
Breaking Bad Normalizes Meth, Argues Prosecutor
I work as a felony prosecutor in a town where methamphetamine is our biggest narcotics problem. I’m also a big fan of Breaking Bad, but whenever I ask colleagues (particularly law-enforcement officers) whether they’ve been …