Outside the Beltway

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

Some surprisingly bad economic news

New rules mandating full-time benefits for instructors teaching 30 hours predictably led to their hours being cut.

Fitch is out this morning with a warning on the nation’s credit rating that both Republicans and Democrats need to listen to.

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

The White House has shot down an idea that never deserved to be taken seriously.

Welcome to the latest crazy scheme to avoid reality.

Minting a Platinum Coin would be a really bad idea.

The new $450,000 income threshold is a political fiction.

Are we really going to do this again? The answer appears to be yes.

Kevin Drum argues that, “We Don’t Have a Spending Problem. We Have an Aging Problem.”

Could a coin like this solve the looming debt ceiling crisis?

The next six weeks or so will see Congress once again fighting over a self-created crisis.

Electric shavers have come down in price so much that it’s cheaper to buy a new one than a replacement head for your old one.

One major factor in the skyrocketing cost of a college education in America is a huge increase in overhead costs.

A rich child is 45 percent more likely to earn a four-year college degree than a poor one.

Radical tax groups secured a Pyrrhic victory last night.

Germany recognizes a right to use pseudonyms online and has ordered Facebook to honor it.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

Why the bureaucratic tyrants at the FDA regulate your yuletide drinks.

Will your Yelp review land you in court?

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.

In a show of marketing savvy that put Detroit where it is, Lincoln is rebranding itself as Lincoln.

Perhaps we should take a pass on trying to reach a deal on resolving issues propelling us toward the Fiscal Cliff.

Whenever a Republican mentions the ‘Bush tax cuts,’ they should also talk about going back to the ‘Clinton tax rates.’

Conservatives seem to be viewing the Fiscal Cliff through rose-colored glasses.

NPR’s Julie Rovner makes a novel argument: Raising the Medicare eligibility age would actually increase the cost of Medicare.

Once again, there are proposals to eliminate the Dollar Bill. It’s a good idea, which is why it’s not likely to go anywhere.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

The Law School Bubble has imploded.