Pema Levy

The New Yorker‘s James Surowiecki argues that Elizabeth Warren is in fact a friend of capitalism: The core principle of Warren’s work is also a cornerstone of economic theory: well-informed consumers make for vigorous competition and efficient markets. That idea is embodied in the design of the new agency, which focuses on improving the information […]

John Edwards was indicted today on charges that he used almost $1 million in campaign funds to hide his mistress and their child during his 2008 presidential campaign. The best way to understand Edwards’ alleged crimes is to combine the cases of Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Ensign. The former fathered a child during an affair […]

Efforts to defund Planned Parenthood on the state level took a big hit yesterday when the administration finally weighed in and deemed Indiana’s effort to prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding illegal. A letter from Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) head Donald Berwick made clear that “Medicaid programs may not exclude qualified […]

Texas may soon demonstrate what it looks like to drastically cut both access to family planning and abortion. Earlier this week, I wrote about the imminent loss of Texas’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which provides poor women with things like birth control and cancer screenings. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. As budget […]

A new study shows the number of women enrolled in law school has been declining steadily since 2002, a disparity that shows particularly at the top 10 law schools. At The Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson rightly, I think, brings up the possibility that the increasing cost of law school might be at play here. From […]

In February, Shirley Sherrod filed a complaint against Andrew Breitbart, initiating a defamation lawsuit over the release of an edited video that portrayed her as racist and caused her to lose her job. When the full video was released, it became apparent that her speech was actually about racial tolerance, and the administration apologized to […]