Your Brackets Don’t Have to Be Busted

This March, It’s Time to Make College Basketball Picks More Social, Flexible—and American

At this historic time, with our nation sorely divided over taxes, spending, and party lines, it’s reassuring to witness the splendid uniting rites of March Madness. When it comes to NCAA Basketball Brackets, my fellow countrymen (and women) and co-workers, the State of the Union is strong to very strong, and comfortably at peace. Most of us fill them out, whether or not we can tell a two-three zone defense from a box-and-one.

But is the tradition stale, or at least a little dog-eared? Over the past 30 years, we’ve witnessed …

There Will Be Mortgage Blood

An Idea That’ll Make No One Very Happy (Which Is Why It’s Good)

By now we are all eminently aware of our nation’s mortgage crisis. Lenders over-lent, buyers over-bought, and state-of-the-art hedging ensured nobody would ever be held accountable.

But four years on, economists …

Too Blue to Fail

A Spanish Model to Put the Dodgers Back Together -- And Back on Top

As the Dodgers’ tedious ownership saga nears its denouement, Dodger Nation stares into the abyss, bankrupt, dreading a dubious future. Yet I’m here to report, that handled correctly, this is …

Death by Seal

My Brother’s Killer’s Awesome Demise

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”   – George Orwell

‘Twas a scene serene …