Constant Comment
How Kathleen Parker became America’s most-read woman columnist
The American Prospect, November 2009
Welcome Guest Workers
Ideas: Fixing the world.
The Atlantic, July/August 2009
Does Mike Huckabee Have a Prayer?
He’s absurdly likeable. A Favorite of the faithful. But, does Mike Huckabee have a prayer?
Politics, January 2008
It Takes a Family (To Break a Glass Ceiling)
The uncomfortable truth is that political nepotism has often served feminism’s cause well.
The New York Times, January 5, 2008
Guests in the Machine.
Reason, January 2008
Don’t Blame China for Myanmar
Neither China nor any other nation has much sway over the ruling junta.
Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2007
The Pantsuit Paradox
How do women signal power at the boys’ club?
Reason Online, August 14, 2007
Dying for Lifesaving Drugs
Will desperate patients destroy the pharmaceutical system that produces tomorrow’s treatments?
Reason, August/September, 2007
Invasion of the Prostitots
Another moral panic about American girls
Reason, July 2007
Ghetto Capitalists
The inner cities are bustling with informal enterprises, but the government has cut them off from the larger economy.
Reason, May 2007
Big Business in Body Parts
Biotech firms make healthy profits from tissue sales. Why not the rest of us?
Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2007
Who Owns Your Body Parts?
Everyone’s making money in the market for body tissue — except the donors.
Reason, March 2007
Ova for Sale
The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs
Reason, October 2006