Does anyone at the Vatican talk to each other? Or are these guys just really really awful at public relations? Earlier this week, the Holy See’s ambassador to the United Nations delivered a defiant statement in response to allegations that Vatican officials haven’t done enough to deal with sex abuse within the church. The statement [...]
Austan Goolsbee is a funny guy–for an economist. (I kid.) But he lives in a town, Washington, D.C., that is not funny, unless you are laughing at us, which is rather easy to do. So depending on how you look at it, he either has a low bar or a high bar to clear before [...]
You may have heard that on Tuesday evening, the Senate Finance Committee approved another Hatch amendment (he’s got a million of ‘em, folks) to restore $50 million in Title V funding for abstinence-only programs that Congress allowed to expire in June. As you might imagine, this has social conservatives somersaulting and social liberals…well, not so [...]
