Outside the Beltway

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

Dispelling a rising myth,

The President’s well-intentioned campaign against military sex crimes has backfired.

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is making quite a splash.

Predicting the end of the DPRK is a fool’s errand.

Our tax system is so complicated that whether we’re filing our returns correctly is a known unknown.

A commonly cited statistic in support of the “equal pay” argument does not stand up to scrutiny.

The diary entries of a dying Ulysses S. Grant shed some interesting insights into a different time.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Justice Ginsburg made some interesting comments about Roe v. Wade recently. Could they be a signal about where the Court is headed on gay marriage?

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

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United continue to miss the point of what the case was really about.

A new book about the President details his marijuana use in High School and at Occidental College.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Mitt Romney won big in Illinois last night, and moved a big step closer to wrapping this race up.

Seven of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty universities on the planet are American.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

If there’s anyone out there, why haven’t we heard from them yet?

More in common than they might think.

The Big Ten has decided that naming its championship trophy after a man who enabled the raping of multiple children is a bad idea.

Herman Cain’s initial response to the allegations made yesterday leaves much to be desired.

It’s the 5% versus the 1% moreso than the 99% against the 1%.

A case pending in Maryland raises the question of when boorish online behavior crosses the line from protected speech to criminal act.

In the book he released last year , Rick Perry advocated far reaching changes to the Constitution.

Tim Pawlenty’s new fiscal plan isn’t very grounded in reality.

Austan Goolsbee is resigning as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to return to the University of Chicago.

A profile of George Mason economist and blogger Tyler Cowen offers this amusing description: “Cowen, 49, has round features, a hesitant posture, and an unconcerned haircut.”

A new study suggests college students aren’t learning the critical thinking skills they’re supposed to learn, but that isn’t necessary the fault of the university they’re attending.

How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?

Having a computer in the home does not have a significant impact on academic achievement, according to several new studies.

Law schools are artificially raising student grades, sometimes retroactively, to make them more competitive on the job market.