There’s no such thing as having it all

I assume the entire progressive blogosphere will agree with me that trying to pursue a more “bipartisan tone” in Washington is a substantively foolish idea for the White House to pursue. But the fact of the matter is that I think the smart thing for any President to say is that he wants to pursue a bipartisan tone, so it’s hard to know what to make of that remark.

The pilot of a medical helicopter that crashed and killed everyone on board in August 2011 was texting with a friend while trying to deal with the dangerously low amount of fuel he had on board.

Paul Krugman worries that there’s a legal problem with re-inflating the economy through helicopter drops of money:

Last year, author Pamela Druckerman caused a firestorm when she published an essay in The Wall Street Journal called "Why French Parents are Superior."

Submitted by FF Wiley of Cyniconomics blog, HAP vs. RR vs. the Pundits: Scoring the Reinhart, Rogoff Dispute For those surfers who haven’t already lost interest in the spirited debate over a 2% calculation discrepancy in an historical average, please read on.

There have been all manner of parenting styles from attachment parenting, to helicopter parenting, to free-range parenting. All of them focus on pretty much on the time you spend doing things for or with your children. But what about the time you spend buying things for your children? It seems that there has been a ...

The worst thing that happens after most US elections is that people begin to debate whether or not the election in question is/was a “realignment” election.

Katie Roiphe’s critique of NYC private school anxiety is excellent, with just one problem: