In December of 2003, Stuart Taylor and Evan Thomas wrote a cover story for Newsweek about the tort system. Their thesis was that the tort system in America was out of control and imposed huge social and economic costs on…

Have you read Stephanie Mencimer’s article about the myth of American’s lawsuit crisis? I last posted about it on October 8, 2004. At that time, I was alerting readers to the fact that Mencimer herself had replied on this website

We are in for a tumultuous four years, folks. Nationally, the Right is in the most advantageous policymaking position it has been in since before the New Deal. The Left knows it, and is throwing everything it can against the Right in an attempt to st…

Stuart Taylor, Jr. of Newsweek and National Journal has written a detailed, point-by-point rebuttal to Stephanie Mencimer, whose articles assailing liability reformers have been a low point in the recent history of the Washington Monthly. Curiously or …