Thomas Herndon was given a homework assignment.His goal was to take a well-known and frequently-quoted economics study and figure out how the researchers came to their conclusions.Herndon, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, gladly took that assignment. But he soon ...
During the summer of 1996, an innocent man became the target of an investigation after a horrendous crime.Richard W. Jewell, who had been working security at night and as a police officer during the day, not only had nothing to do with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, he’d been the first ...
Each year, Major League Baseball honors the memory of Jackie Robinson – and rightly so.And every year, while every Major League player wears the number 42 to honor him, broadcasters recall the tremendous difficulties Robinson had to overcome before he would be proclaimed one of the greatest ...
There are war clouds gathering. But apparently only in the busy mind of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s Supreme Leader, First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, First Chairman of the National Defence Commission who is also the Chairman of the Central Military Commission -- ...
This is gruesome stuff.“The execution was private, there were not more than 80 persons altogether who witnessed the infliction of the death penalty,” said story on the front page (second edition) of the Uniontown Daily News Standard on April 24, 1913.One would have to wonder how any event ...
Those Republicans are at it again. They’d vowed to take a fresh look at themselves; then make concerted efforts to become a “more inclusive” political organization. That must’ve been a momentary self-delusion.They’re back to finding new ways to alienate everybody who isn’t a ...