Yale Daily News

On Jan. 6, 2005, newly elected Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of Alberto Gonzales. (Full disclosure: […]

October 11, 2007

Interested in serving your country after you graduate? Uncle Sam says … don’t join the U.S. Army! Instead, you can become a private contractor in […]

September 27, 2007

The sheer volume of Iraq news and commentary available from the mainstream media, the Web and C-SPAN can be overwhelming to anyone. Anyone, it seems, […]

September 13, 2007

A couple weeks ago, I ate lunch with a group of 15- and 16-year-olds — the same kids I’m supposed to transform this summer into […]

April 19, 2007

A friend of mine described the story line in Frank Miller’s “300” this way (I’m paraphrasing): “An army led by a dictator comes out of […]

April 5, 2007

It’s a painfully obvious truth that the words we use reveal a lot about our thinking. Like using “socialist” when we’re not talking about socialists, […]

March 8, 2007

A lot can happen in 11 months. The last 11 months have witnessed the collapse of decade-long Republican legislative control. The next 11 months promise […]

February 22, 2007

There are times when government best serves its people by doing nothing. Libertarians argue that government should do nothing most of the time. But even […]

February 8, 2007

I’ll start by confessing I didn’t watch Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Generally, the thing that interests me most about the address is the […]

January 25, 2007

Sam Kauffman died in his sleep on Monday in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was 89 years old. Sam was a farmer who owned his farm, […]

November 16, 2006

Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is not a very good politician. He doesn’t raise money particularly well — he was outspent three to one in […]

November 2, 2006