…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…LGM.) A more insidious kind of lie is simply denying reality, as characterized by birtherism, New Deal and global warming denialism, and Friday’s epidemic of conspiracy theories surrounding the latest…

…difference to investment levels. But then again the data is noisy. Scott Lemieux at LGM demurs. Sure, if you 1)accept the premise that reducing or eliminating capital gains taxes will…

Rob Farley of Lawyers, Guns, and Money beat me to the short one, so there is only: though I admit being partial to or even…

The close: [W]hen the New York Times came and offered [Ross Douhat] a column, he did not turn it down saying “no, I clearly do not deserve this honour, others…

When I first heard that Michael Jackson died, I thought immediately of Chuck Sullivan. I met him once, probably in the early 1990s, after his sponsorship of The Jacksons’s Victory…

I’m not really paying attention to (major league) baseball this year, so I should probably leave this to Scott, but, as a query: For all team that was supposed to…

…do about health care. Both of them initially, or at least at some point, signed on to the “Medicare-for-all” label for a single payer government run health insurance system that…

…of whether hydroxychloroquine should be prescribed off label based on the in vitro results is not the same as the question of should we be confident that it will work…

Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…