Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), which oversee the ethics of human subjects research, have long come under criticism for applying to social science inquiry a range of restrictive oversight practices better suited to medical experimentation [Zachary Schrag on a 2017 effort to prune back the rules] Now Omri Ben-Shahar at Regulatory Review reports on an experiment at the University of Chicago: It is widely recognized that IRBs have exercised “mission creep,” continuously… [read post]

(Aaron Tang, Slate)  This is why it’s difficult to rein in the Supreme Court (Zachary B. [read post]

Since around the time he took the reins of the bureau, McCabe has been a recurring target of the president’s anger, stemming in part from McCabe’s commitment to protecting the independence of the special counsel investigation into possible connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians and obstruction of justice. [read post]

Chally, Zachary A. [read post]

John McCain is, by any measure, an estimable hero, but no one should confuse being shot down over Vietnam and spending five years as an inspiring prisoner with the kinds of experience enjoyed by, say, Zachary Taylor, Grant, or Eisenhower, to name the most obvious examples. [read post]