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But technology has made things worse, says Christine Rosen, who writes about technology and society for the New Atlantis. “Photoshop has made images of female perfection routine.And the ease with which we can now upload images of ourselves (on ...

Very seriously, as it turns out. On his own initiative, Sekhon spent eight weeks preparing for the role. He plowed through an extensive reading list filled with books about the Middle East and terrorism by Peter Bergen, Reza Aslan, Jason Burke and others.

Gibbs also has outlasted the so-called heir and the “spare” at Time Inc. Josh Tyrangiel, the former editor of Time.com who left to run Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Romesh Ratnesar, who went on book leave and then earlier this year joined Tyrangiel at ...

... asks Tamar Jacoby, president of Immigration Works USA. But that's just what the H2-B program was, effective and popular. Now, Jacoby laments, “Instead of strengthening the legal programs, [the Labor Department] is making things harder.”

Equally important was that, over the decades, it became subject to an “unspoken gentleman's agreement” (as Nicholas Thompson called it in a 2004 Legal Affairs piece). Crusading prosecutors like Louis Lefkowitz used the act to chase out of town the ...

If a union falls by the wayside and nobody notices, does it make a difference?

Verizon's union workforce will return to work tomorrow, after a 16-day strike. You may have noticed that you didn't notice.

[be] aiming to save significantly more than the $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction prescribed,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). “It's hard to say it's much of a savings when you look ...

Nicholas Schmidle's utterly compelling tale in The New Yorker -- on the takedown of Osama bin Laden by an elite Navy commando team -- was revealing in numerous ways. Alas, one was quite troubling -- in that it suggests Team Obama has elevated politics ...

When, on a 2009 trip to China, Barack Obama proclaimed that “the more freely information flows, the stronger the society,” he was only echoing Ronald Reagan’s pronouncement (made in 1989) that “information is the oxygen of the modern age.” Most American politicians spent the two decades in between these statements — right until they hit the WikiLeaks iceberg — under the mysterious spell of information technology and its power to spread democracy.

In this case, the government lacks even the weak excuse that the change will boost tax revenues, since -- as Megan McArdle of The Atlantic Monthly pointed ...