In the latest issue of Regulation , Thomas A. Lambert summarizes the reasoning underlying the Roberts individual mandate ruling, and explains how it actually undermines the new health care law. Also in this issue, G. Stuart Mendenhall and Mark Schmidhofer question the usefulness of the TSA’s terrorist screening procedures. Winter 2012-2013 Issue of Regulation
Medienmagazin / Creative Commons Before today’s cable and broadcast network Sunday political talk shows aired, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in a speech that President Donald Trump’s visi ... Read more
At least 18 people were killed in bombing carried out by the United States-led international coalition in the southern part of the Syrian northeastern city of al-Raqqa, a British-based war monitor rep ... Read more
German Angelique Kerber, who is ranked first in the world, was knocked out from the French Open in the first round on Sunday, following a 6-2, 6-2 loss to Russian Ekaterina Makarova. Read more
Spanish singer-songwriter Miguel Bose celebrated 40 years in the music business at a packed concert in Colombia’s capital, where he took time to remember the victims of last week’s terrorist attack in ... Read more
Iraqi forces made progress on Sunday in their offensive in Mosul’s Old City, the last area still dominated by the Islamic State terror organization in this northern Iraq city. Read more
Six police officers were shot dead by a colleague in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan during an internal attack on security forces, official sources reported Sunday. Read more
Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky defeated on Sunday Sara Sorribes, who became the first Spanish woman to lose to the Swiss tennis player in the French Open. Read more
Indian Kashmir has been left paralyzed by restrictions on freedom of movement and gathering of people along with the strike convened by separatists after an insurgent commander was gunned down by Indi ... Read more
Argentine tennis player Horacio Zeballos reached on Sunday the second round at the French Open after beating French Adrian Mannarino 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. Read more
Addressing a crowd of worshippers in Saint Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis offered prayers to those killed in terror attacks over the past week in the United Kingdom and Egypt. Read more
Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova advanced to the second round of the French Open after winning her first match since sustaining serious injuries to her racket-holding left hand in a knife attack in D ... Read more
Cheering crowds encouraged the thousands of runners who took to the streets of central Manchester on Sunday for the annual Great Run, which went ahead amid tight security in a city hit by a terror att ... Read more
The Bangladesh authorities on Sunday reinstated a statue of the Greek goddess of Justice Themis inside the Supreme Court two days after removing it from the front plaza of the court complex after viol ... Read more
A total of 13 suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrilla group were killed in a Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq, Anadolu news agency reported on Sunday. Read more
The Chinese government on Sunday denounced the mention of maritime disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea that were included in the closing statement of the G7 summit in Italy, calling ... Read more
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) NGO rescue ship carrying 1,446 migrants finally docked in the southern Italian port of Naples on Sunday, 48 hours after it was refused permission to disembark on the is ... Read more
Nineteen civilians have been killed by Maute Group rebels in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, the army reported on Sunday, as fighting which has already left 95 people dead entered its sixth da ... Read more