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Joshua Keating asks today, "what does deterrence even mean, really?" It's a good question for at least two reasons: (a) deterrence against what? and (b) what's the evidence? The first question is critical. The most famous case of deterrence is the MAD doctrine during the Cold War. It worked! But in the modern world deterrence ...continue reading "Does deterrence work?"

St. Louis County officers shot the man at a home on the 4500 block of Virginia Avenue in St. Louis, according to charging documents.

Apparently the damages against Donald Trump in his business fraud case have been accumulating interest at a 9% annual rate for several years: On profits from the sale of the Old Post Office: interest is owed since May 2022. On profits from the sale of Ferry Point: interest is owed since June 2023. On everything ...continue reading "CORRECTION: Trump actually owes about half a billion dollars"

St. Louis aldermen on Friday passed legislation that would return pension board control to firefighter interests, even as Mayor Tishaura Jones indicated she would veto it.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Ameren plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant in south St. Louis County on the former site of its oldest and smallest coal plant, which closed a year ago, the company announced Thursday. The St. Louis-based electric utility said the new facility would be used as a “peaker” plant to […]

Alex Tabarrok links today to an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal which has some good news: the T-Mobile/Sprint merger in 2020 wasn't anti-competitive! But this paragraph piqued my curiosity: Average monthly mobile subscription fees dropped sharply. In the three years before the merger, according to government price data, mobile charges declined in real terms ...continue reading "Here’s what really happened after the T-Mobile/Sprint merger"

Def Leppard has added another tour date to their already busy schedule. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to headline Spokane Arena on September 6, the first time they are playing…

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The chaos for Xbox keeps on rolling, it seems. We were just talking about how years of muddled communication coming from Microsoft’s Xbox team over exclusives and game ports to other consoles is resulting in a ton of confusion and speculation among the gaming public. The responsibility for all of this lies squarely at the […]

Mother Nature made things a bit messy for Catholics on the first Friday of Lent. Some in the area had to cancel their fish fries for the evening, but for the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, the show must go on.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis is enhancing community health programs with a $150,000 grant from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.

"With temperatures dropping overnight, 'freeze back' is a major concern with the wet conditions after the storm," a MoDOT spokesperson said.

Illinois aims to diversify the construction industry workforce through a 3-year-old state program.

The Repertory Theater of St. Louis amazes audiences with an inventive, multi-sensory production of Moby Dick, adapted and directed by David Catlin. The constantly in motion three-act show distills Herman Melville’s dense and detailed novel into its most significant moments while delivering the entirety of the story.