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Get Your Kitchen Out of My Parking Space!
City governments across the country are threatening to kill the food truck revolution with dumb regulations.
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Krugman vs. Brooks
The Times’ columnists are brawling about Charles Murray’s new book. They are both wrong.
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Citizenship for Sale
St. Kitts and Nevis will let you buy citizenship. The United States should do the same.
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Get Your Own Damn Coffee!
Most unpaid internships are illegal. Why don’t more interns protest?
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Chipotle Is Apple
The burrito chain is revolutionizing food: Why doesn’t it get more respect?
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Time for QE3
Forget the happy jobs report—the Federal Reserve needs to boost the economy again.
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The World’s Most Popular Online Newspaper
How the Daily Mail took the title from the New York Times.
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All Hail, Emperor Zuckerberg
How Facebook’s IPO gives a stunning and unprecedented amount of power to its CEO.
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I Paid $4 Million for This?
Super Bowl ad prices have risen faster than inflation or viewership. Can they really be worth it?
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Loaves, Fishes, and a Nice Marinara
I’m still not convinced Matt Yglesias is right about copyright.
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Help America: Get Divorced!
The coming boom in failed marriages and why it’s exactly what the economy needs.
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Copying Is Not Stealing
And other ideas about copyright that Caleb Crain and I agree on.
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Train in Vain
The idiotic Department of Transportation rule that’s hobbled America’s mass transit—and the wonderful regulation that may soon replace it.
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Dirty Money
The astonishing new data showing that simply eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies could achieve half the world’s carbon reduction goals.
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That’s Obama’s Jobs Plan?
His muddled SOTU scheme to boost the economy by hindering trade.
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Mitt’s Income vs. Your Income
How long would it take the GOP candidate to earn what you make in a year?
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The Phony Crisis of Capitalism
I’m the college student Nick Kristof cited as evidence that students have turned socialist. He’s wrong.
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E-Textbooks Should Be Free-Textbooks
How the Gates Foundation and Apple could team up to destroy the evil textbook cabal and save schools billions.
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The End of Retail
Troubles at Sears are just the latest sign that big-box chains may never recover from the Great Recession.
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Fire Congress, Dump Mississippi and Alaska
How a private-equity firm would refurbish the United States for quick resale to China.
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Vote for the Callous Jerk!
At Bain Capital, Mitt Romney was a cold, ruthless destroyer of jobs and families. Does America need someone like that in the White House?
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Flip This Economy
A new study shows how short-term speculators made the housing bubble much, much worse.
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Weak-Willed? There’s an App for That.
Meet GymPact, a new company that wants to charge you for not exercising.
