"The biggest and weirdest myth out there about the $1 trillion platinum coin is..."

Matthew Yglesias debunks a myth without establishing that anyone believes it. Clue to Matt: No one believes it. This is one of those glarin...

The economics of legal(ish) marijuana in Colorado and Washington.

It won't be cheap for users. And it will be hard for the producers — or the states (with their taxes and fees) — to make money.

"Getting kicked out of Zuccotti Park... was the best possible endgame" for Occupy Wall Street.

Says Matt Yglesias. This fits with what I was saying the other day about the problem with the "Occupy" protest format: There'...

Matt Yglesias is pointlessly pigheaded about his misstatement of what Ron Paul has proposed to do about abortion.

Yglesias responds to a post of mine: Ann Althouse chooses for some reason to dispute that Ron “respecting the God-given right to life—for t...

"[Ron] Paul’s experience in science and medicine only reinforced his belief that life begins at conception..."

"... and he believes it would be inconsistent for him to champion personal liberty and a free society if he didn’t also advocate respec...

Requiring patients to sign over copyrights to reviews of doctors so the doctors can make websites take down bad reviews.

If you've chosen a doctor based on all the good reviews in Yelp, and he won't treat you unless you sign a form that gives him owners...

"Have you ever had a thought on the topic of race that isn't set generations into the past? Have you ever thought about the future?"

A commenter questions Matt Yglesias's questioning of Newt Gingrich. Gingrich talked about having "a voting standard that says to vo...

Yglesias: "Osama Bin Laden’s Death Could Be a Great Time To Declare Victory In The 'War On Terror.'"

Love the scare quotes, Matt . Yeah, Obama should be all "Mission Accomplished!" Great advice. The threat to the physical security ...

"The country is indeed ungovernable."

"By Democrats."

"Morally speaking, what [Bob] Novak was doing here is no better than walking down a crowded street with his handgun, firing off .22 rounds at random."

Says Matt Yglesias — about Novak's hit and run accident today. ADDED: Above the Law's "Lawyer of the Day" award goes to ...

Matt Yglesias asks: "Does This Blog Suck? Do All Blogs Suck?"

"This," meaning his, not mine. He's responding to a reader who wants to know "What'd you think about David Appell...