The number of Pennsylvania voters without required photo IDs exceeds Obama’s 2008 margin of victory.

My latest for The Atlantic continues the debate over work-life balance spawned by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.”

So, we’re safe from that broccoli mandate, right?

Either the majority and dissenting opinions in NFIB v. Sebelius were among the sloppiest in Supreme Court history or the Chief Justice switched sides at the 11th hour.

Chief Justice Roberts: “Although the breadth of Congress’s power to tax is greater than its power to regulate commerce, the taxing power does not give Congress the same degree of control over individual behavior.”

Obama holds up “MANDATE STRUCK DOWN” headline from CNN in “DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN” photoshop

Chief Justice Roberts sided with a majority in upholding the individual mandate and, indeed, all but some trivial portions of the Affordable Care Act.

The US Supreme Court has struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a federal crime to lie about military honors, on free speech grounds.

Does talent spawn growth? Or does growth attract talent?

Men who graduate elite universities earn an additional $107,000 lifetime. It costs $234,440 to get a Yale degree.

The election is about the economy. The economy is awful. Yet the incumbent still holds a slight lead.

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

I’ve joined The Atlantic’s debate over a thought-provoking cover story by Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Mitt Romney will likely be the first challenger able to outspend a sitting president. He’ll need it.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ankara Puts NATO on Speed Dial,” has been posted.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

Byron York reacts to a CNNMoney story titled “Government wants more people on food stamps” by snarking, “And Democrats reacted angrily when Gingrich called Obama ‘food stamp president.'”

The US Supreme Court has upheld the most controversial provisions of Arizona’s immigration law.

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

Congressmen are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in stock in companies over which they have oversight. And it’s perfectly legal.

Marrying Prince William gave Kate Middleton fame, fortune, and a path to being the queen of England. Also, apparently, constant humiliation.

Following yesterday’s shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s not going to happen.

Mary Cheney has married longtime partner Heather Poe.

David Chan has eaten at more than 6000 Chinese restaurants. He says the best are all in California and most opened in the last decade.

Will winning a championship finally overshadown “The Decision” and erase the NBA’s best player’s reputation as a choke artist?

Thomas Friedman continues his quixotic quest for a third party. His candidate: a fantasy Barack Obama.

A grand jury found that beating a child molester to death is an authorized use of deadly force.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will become president of Purdue University upon completion of his term in January. The faculty is apprehensive because Daniels has not had an academic career.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Americans should be thankful when our presidents take time off.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

The “Mormon Question” that has long plagued Mitt Romney is being raised again by a new study showing the sentiment rising among liberals and non-believers.

Saudi Arabia’s monarchy has suffered the loss of Crown Prince Nayef, the successor 88-year-old King Abdullah.

Few people earn a million dollars in a year. Fewer still do it more than once.

Frustrated by its inability to get laws passed through Congress, the Obama administration has decided to stop following laws already passed by Congress.

A third of Americans under the age of 30 doubt the existence of God, compared to 14 percent 25 years ago.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

The Republican nominee gets some backhanded praise from an unlikely source, MoJo blogger Kevin Drum.

When I saw the headline “Black Mormons Face Tough Election Choice Between Romney And Obama,” I naturally presumed it would lead to a parody news piece in The Onion.

GQ has a great look back at the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team titled “The Dream Will Never Die: An Oral History of the Dream Team.”

Chuck Shumer wants to force airlines to let families sit together for free.

British Prime Minister David Cameron accidentally left his 8-year-old daughter at a pub.

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

Insult comic Don Rickles told a joke about President Obama being a janitor. Like most of Rickles’ material over the last several decades, it wasn’t funny.