Employers have to provide health coverage for those who work 30 hours a week. Guess what?

The main who coined the word “meritocracy” meant it as a pejorative term.

Pope Benedict XVI explains that he’s just too sick and tired to stay on as pontiff.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

Tony Schwartz says, “Relax! You’ll Be More Productive.”

John Karlin, an industrial psychologist for Bell Labs that you’ve probably never heard of, has died aged 94.

The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

It’s easier for your government to kill you than strip you of your citizenship.

“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.

Tim Kane continues his campaign against the US military’s antiquated personnel system.

A Tel Aviv woman found her car towed and a handicapped parking space painted around where she’d left it.

Ramesh Ponnuru considers “The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans.”

Americans waste $121 billion a year because of traffic congestion.

In “Managing Mom’s Money,” J.D. Roth relates various credit card scams that are difficult to avoid and impossible to get out of once in.

I joined the Army so I could travel, fight, and go on adventures. Just like Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called a controversial NRA claim “ridiculous.”

Christina Hoff Summers argues that America needs to fix the way we educate boys.

Andrew Bacevich bemoans the social impact of the all-volunteer force.

Is America’s focus on defense weakening the country?

Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner Oaks will be cut down, an acknowledgment that they’ll never be healthy again after an idiot Alabama fan poisoned them.

Ross Wilson, former US ambassador to Turkey, says yesterday’s suicide attack on our embassy in Ankara “was no Benghazi.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

The “I” in DIA apparently does not stand for Intelligence.

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

I have over the years been both editor and edited; currently, I’m both, often in the same day. Some thoughts on the relationship.

A retired Marine gunny argues that women should not be in the infantry since they’re not in the National Football League.

Virginia has decisively killed a bill that would have awarded the Commonwealth’s electoral votes to the winner of gerrymandered congressional districts rather than the statewide winner.

The New York Times breaks the shocking story (“That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think”) that cats kill birds and small mammals.

The office working to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has been closed.

David Brooks has an idea that only David Brooks could love.

Since 1877, it has been illegal for unmarried Virginia couples to cohabitate. That may soon change.

Obama’s fundraising team helped raise half a million dollars for Hillary Clinton.

Katherine Applegate, long suffering spouse of frequent OTB commenter Michael Reynolds, has been awarded the Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children for The One and Only Ivan.

The Boy Scouts is strongly reconsidering its ban on gays.

Greg Jaffe has an outstanding feature titled “In one Army family, women in combat evokes two different perspectives.”

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordered a lifting of the ban on women in ground combat.

Government-mandated paid sick leave might improve both public health and the American economy.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine,” is out.

A company’s best programmer was a Chinese man working for a fifth of what lesser employees earned. Alas, one of those employees was getting paid the other four-fifths.

President Obama has unveiled a set of restrictions that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook Massacre. Some are nonetheless be good policy.