The mortgage crisis is a burst bubble, a failure of intelligence, and a rich psychological case study. What to do about it? Perhaps nothing. By Richard A. Posner.
Becker makes the ingenious suggestion that the effect of adding drug coverage to the Medicare program is to prevent spending on drugs from growing as rapidly as the number of persons covered by Medicare....
Last week a federal district judge in Detroit ruled that the National Security Agency's conduct of electronic surveillance outside the boundaries of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is illegal…
A continuation of Posner's illuminating Preventing Surprise Attacks, Uncertain Shield is not only an update, but an argument that the decisions that the administration has made in implementing the defective Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 are cr
Despite opinion to the contrary, our nation’s intelligence services are not broken, nor can they be “fixed” simply by reshuffling the CIA’s organizational chart. The true strengths—and limitations—of our country’s spy agencies. By Richard A. Posner.
