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Of course, France and Germany had the ability to formulate completely new constitutions following World War II, and Britain to this day lacks a formal constitution, meaning that gradually weakening the upper house was far more plausible in those nations than in the United States. Indeed, formally weakening the Senate...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: Kill The Senate. Kill It Dead. | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

There are currently only a few channels that are simulcast, meaning you can watch, essentially in real time, breaking news on Fox News Channel or select sporting events on ESPN. So if your favorite game is delayed, your PTV won't miss a beat. Can you be sure that your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV on the Go | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Complexity is the mode of the second author, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, whose book Thrift: Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue may be tough sledding for the non-Ph.D. reader. Malloch, who has held positions at the U.N., the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the State Department, writes with passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, though much of the press about Harvardfml has been negative, pointing to its posts as evidence of privileged Harvard students’ self-centered or isolationist tendencies, the blog offers evidence of a shared experience students go through together. The fact that there are reoccurring characters in the posts...

Author: By Zachariah P. Hughes | Title: Our Confessional Community | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

In 1959 an education professor at the University of Iowa named Everett Franklin Lindquist (who later pioneered the first generation of optical scanners and the development of the GED test) developed the ACT as a competitor to the SAT. Originally an acronym for American College Testing, the exam included a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standardized Testing | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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