This article is by Kyle Scott, who teaches political science at Duke University and is the author of three books, most recently Federalism (2011), and dozens of articles on issues in domestic and ...

The national unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, up nearly four points from the first quarter of 2008. Recent news has not been optimistic. In August, for the first time since 1945, the federal ...

Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball" came out in 2003, and has become the most important book in baseball since Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" was released in 1970. But while "Ball Four" brought the clubhouse ...

“Moneyball” is the best baseball movie ever made because the strength of it, the sheer will of it, isn’t about baseball. (UPDATED) “Moneyball” is about defiance. It’s about having the guts to do ...

The cinematic release of “Moneyball” this week captures Billy Beane at the peak of his creative powers, with the A”s in the midst of four consecutive playoff appearances while averaging 98 wins a year ...

“Moneyball” is the quintessential anti-sports movie. It is a baseball film in which the actual game barely features, and the players themselves are given mere bit parts in their own story. There is no ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...