When Evan Soltas first asked me to add his blog to my blogroll, I politely declined.  I thought it was cute that a high school senior was attempting blogging, but come on, let’s be serious. Big mistake.  Unfortunately, his blog is so consistently good that it can no longer be ignored.  A few days ago Evan provided six arguments in favor of NGDP targeting.  Nick Rowe pointed out that the sixth (which Evan thought up himself) was a sort of refutation of Schumpeterian economics.  Evan follows up w...  show all text

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The founders of Americans Elect had a dream: A 50-state presidential campaign that would upend, smash, destroy the two-party system. Today, these founders admitted that it wouldn’t work. No presidential candidate had survived the first round of the online primary. At least $35 million had been spent on absolutely nothing.

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Sample of subway network structures from (clockwise, top left) Shanghai, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Barcelona. Image: Roth et al./JRSI After decades of urban evolution, the world’s major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form. On the surface, these core-and-branch systems — evident in New York City, Tokyo, London or most any large metropolitan subway — may seem intuitively optimal. But in the absence of top-down central planning, their movement over decades toward a common  show all text

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From understanding what digital literacy is, to developing skills and establishing ethical principles for students, our live chat panel share ideas and resources for universities

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There are a bunch of ways to explain away GM’s decision to stop spending ad dollars on Facebook. We’ll get to those. But there’s one thing that even the most ardent Facebook fan can’t argue with: Facebook advertising is very much a work in progress. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to Facebook itself: “We believe that most advertisers are still learning and experimenting with the best ways to leverage Facebook to create more social and valuable ads,” the company says in its IPO filing. If you’...  show all text

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The loss of $10 million in ad dollars does not represent a financial disaster for Facebook, but it is a public relations headache so close to the company’s initial stock offering this week.

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Your best source for quality Columbus Crew news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.

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by Dafna Linzer A version of this story was co-published with The Washington Post. Clarence Aaron seemed to be especially deserving of a federal commutation, an immediate release from prison granted by the president of the United States. At 24, he was sentenced to three life terms for his role in a cocaine deal, even though it was his first criminal offense and he was not the buyer, seller or supplier of the drugs. Of all those convicted in the case, Aaron received the stiffest sentence. For th...  show all text

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Four and a half years ago, I proudly joined the ranks of America's Finest News Source, a/k/a The Onion. For a comedian, tech geek and politics and news junkie, it was and remains an epic high in my life. Today, with a deep sense of nostalgia, I'm excited to move to the next chapter of that insane life having stepped down as Director of Digital to pursue more entrepreneurial ventures. It’s been an amazing ride. Acting as politics editor, I played a part in The Onion's 2008 "War For The White H...  show all text

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A massive report published today in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review claims that Carlos DeLuna was wrongly convicted of murdering Wanda Lopez in 1983 despite a mountain of evidence suggesting that another man with similar features and the same first name was the real killer. More »

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Mr. Sorkin said last year that he was inclined to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs for Sony. But no deal had been set until now.

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After a two-year wait – and a behind-the-scenes challenge by the Wright Brothers – Thomas Alva Edison may finally be headed to Washington. Maybe. The Ohio Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on legislation that includes a notice to the U.S. Congress officially naming the Milan, Ohio, native as one of the state’s two representatives in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.

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The first sporting event that I remember caring about was the 1982 Boston Marathon. I was six years old, which is an age when most sports make no sense: the players wear masks, are freakishly tall, or contend with complicated matters like strike zones. But children know how to run and they know how to race. There’s little competition that’s purer than two men—Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley, in this case—racing side by side for 26.2 miles. Beardsley wore a white cap; Salazar wore red shorts;...  show all text

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The big news at The New Yorker today is the launch of our new literary blog, Page-Turner—take a look and be sure to bookmark it! In her post introducing the new blog, Sasha Weiss writes about how one often finds oneself in a conversation about books in the magazine’s offices, and how “just the other day” an editor “talked about how, after first reading ‘David Copperfield,’ as a teen-ager, she opened it again when she was pregnant, and found that it was a different book.” This is true. “David Co...  show all text

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Overview For decades survey research has provided trusted data about political attitudes and voting behavior, the economy, health, education, demography and

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Car legend Carroll Shelby passed away last week at 89. Jay Leno knew Shelby for two decades, and here recounts the man and the attitude that made him great.

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Columbus officials approve a plan for a new tower next to Crew Stadium off of I-71. See the rendering.

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The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine.

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An ode to the father of the electric age. View

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MEXICO CITY, May 15 (Reuters) - Mexican author CarlosFuentes has died at the age of 83, President Felipe Calderonsaid on Tuesday via his Twitter account.Fuentes was known for works including The Death

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I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies. So, the challenge: ...  show all text

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People purport not to trust the site, but they continue to use it. Is a lack of trust holding Facebook back? CNBC From pretty early on in its short history, Facebook has had issues with privacy. And though the company has made privacy controls a more central part of its offerings in the intervening years, a new poll out today -- just days before the company's IPO -- shows that nearly 60 percent of people surveyed say they have little or no trust in Facebook. What are the effects of this distr...  show all text

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General Motors plans to stop advertising on Facebook after determining its paid ads had little impact on consumers. The news comes just days ahead of Facebook's IPO.

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Don't believe what Newsweek's cover tells you: The first gay president was James Buchanan more than a century ago

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T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet.  lisaquinn565.wordpress A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe f...  show all text

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Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More »

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