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There is no compelling reason to exclude homosexual couples from marriage, and several compelling reasons to include them The Economist | January 4, 1996 MARRIAGE may be for the ages—but it changes by the year. And never, perhaps, has it changed as quickly as since the 1960s. In western law, wives are now equal rather than subordinate…
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National Journal | September 5, 1992 ON APRIL 10, a group of kamikaze Senators marched to the chamber floor with an alternative budget. What they got back was a stark demonstration of the forces that are petrifying postwar democracy. “We do not seek to end entitlements, or even to reduce them,” Sen. Charles S. Robb,…
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National Journal | May 18, 1991 [In 1993, partly as a result of publicity stemming from this article, Congress abolished the wool and mohair subsidies. They were reinstated, in a somewhat different form, in subsequent farm bills.] WE KNEW you were wondering, and the answer is no. Mohair is not the hair of a mo. It…