Families are increasingly living in cities, and conservatives need to offer them solutions; Medicare’s false “savings”; Mother Jones finds much to love in Thomas Malthus; why the NYPD isn’t racist; and whether obesity is really a problem.

Tom Ferriss on dealing with critics; historic photos of Dupont Circle; a new case for the gold standard; and whether ATM fees are a good idea.

A conservative strategy for health care reform now that Obamacare is law; the administration’s new poverty definition; and how even progressives can love federalism.

Daniel Larison is skeptical that there’s a political constituency for repealing Obamacare. He argues that “discontent with the bill will come later as all of its measures take effect after the repeal strategy has been tried and found electorally lacking.” That doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying, though—not least because the Left views this monstrous bill […]

Jim Bunning holds the line on spending; the ugly new American embassy in London; Simon Heffer on Gordon Brown; and Google’s algorithm.

Secretary of Defense Gates criticizes European governments for failing to provide adequately for their own defense. But it’s little wonder that they don’t manage these things themselves when the United States has for so long offered a security guarantee. There’s a major flaw in carbon-​​​​trading schemes, Jeremy Warner argues: no wealth is actually being created […]

Jonah Goldberg points out the obvious flaw in the left’s critique of the filibuster: “Of course the filibuster is undemocratic. This is not some bombshell revelation. And yet in indictment after indictment of the filibuster — and the Senate generally — you hear people level the ‘undemocratic’ charge as if it should be dispositive. The […]

Why are conservatives on board with Question Time at all? Plus: defending Paul Ryan’s entitlement reforms; and two surveys demonstrate broad political ignorance.

The spending freeze; neoconservatism; Citizens United; and Conan O’Brien.

Good news: The Supreme Court has struck down government restrictions on free speech. Here’s a quick history of such restrictions and why they haven’t worked. Bad news: America’s economy is less free now than it was a year ago. The Agitator makes the case that donations in response to disaster don’t constitute fundraising as such. Daniel […]