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In the Jaws of Climate Change
On August 17, 2014, Matt Dyer, a forty-nine-year-old legal aid lawyer from Turner, Maine, emerged from the cabin of the fishing vessel the Robert Bradford as it neared the shores of Nachvak Fjord in...
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Flipping Their Wigs
When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won his Democratic primary last fall, he praised his upstart opponent, Zephyr Teachout, for running a “spirited campaign” and “engaging in the democratic process.”...
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A Thief, a Dirty Politician, and a Suicide Bomber Walk Into a Bar …
It is easy to think of bad things going together, and of bad people doing multiple types of bad things. Sometimes such patterns are real and not just a matter of cognitive consistency. It is a reality...
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Three Simple Fixes That Could Save Pro Football
On the afternoon of November 25, 1905, a sophomore on the Union College football team named Harold Moore plunged headlong into New York University’s offensive wedge in an effort to “buck the line” and...
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Talk of the Toons
A selection of political cartoons from the past few weeks. Credit: Credit: Credit: Credit: Credit: The post Talk of the Toons appeared first on Washington Monthly.
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The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Government
In 1985, Harvard University hosted a conference celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of political scientist Louis Hartz’s The Liberal Tradition in America. In that classic book,...
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SCOTUS Heads Toward the Cliff
What is the difference between judicial conservatives and judicial libertarians? You will not hear many libertarians protest the Roberts Court’s recent trend to give corporations First Amendment...
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Is a Grand Strategy for America Even Possible?
Fall 2014 produced a bumper crop of books from retired four-star flag officers: James Stavridis’s The Accidental Admiral, Wesley Clark’s Don’t Wait for the Next War, and Tony Zinni’s Before the First...
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Meat Puppets
Last September, the Annals of Internal Medicine published a remarkable study on the comparative health benefits of low-fat versus low-carbohydrate diets. Conducted at Tulane University with funding...
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Corporate Law’s Original Sin
The public be damned,” railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt snorted at a reporter in 1882. The impertinent scribe had asked whether Vanderbilt ran his railroads with an eye toward public benefit....
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