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Higher Ed Watch

Higher Ed Watch covers the student loan scandal (links and the rest of the article): One way or another, a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Jon Oberg, the U.S. Department of…

The Texas Miracle, Yet Again

…all—after receiving enough to turn his state’s fourteen-figure budget deficit into a surplus. (UPDATE: Links added. And that final link was rather prophetic.) So when the WSJ’s Economics Blog listed…

Homeland…It is now Empire Security

…Eisenhower’s observation about the opportunity costs of military spending using resources that would be better applied elsewhere and it refuses to adequately define the links between actual threats and expensive…

Elena Kagan vs. Pat Lykos

…on the incompetent. Lithwick links to a more in-depth report and analysis of the exchanges by New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak published in the Times on April…