Author: janicket

As the online Concise Encyclopedia of Economics puts it: The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people–and especially of government–always have effects that are...

I watched the news snippet about Trump’s visit to President Obama today, a segment with the two men in the Oval Office after their private meeting of about an hour and a half, and something jumped out at me: As he sat...

Wow. In the aftermath of the Paris bombings, I saw several posts recommending Al-Jazeera as the network doing the best job of covering the story without hysteria, fact-free hypothesizing, and sensationalizing, so I found it in...

What a difference in media coverage and on-the-streets reality there can be, depending on where you are. There’ve been continuing protest marches and die-ins about Michael Brown and now Eric Garner in eastern...

So we know that the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson grand jury made its decision by midday; yet the verdict wasn’t announced till well after dark, a time when crowd control is more difficult, after hours of breathless media...