Focus on Equality of Opportunity, Not Outcomes
Even if the process of economic recovery proves protracted, the American economy will eventually recover, and cyclical issues will cease to dominate the economic conversation.
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Afghanistan is Missing from the Campaign
After 11 years, 2,000 American lives, trillions of dollars, and lifelong disabilities for nearly half of the soldiers who have fought there — we are still at war in Afghanistan.
The New Global Economy’s (Relative) Winners
The world economy faces considerable uncertainty in the short term. Will the eurozone manage to sort out its problems and avert a breakup? Will the United States engineer a path to renewed growth?
Hillary Clinton's Tenure: Not So Bad
Is Hillary Clinton a great secretary of state?
Towns Have Too Much Power, But Not the Power They Need
What good is there in having scores of publicly managed micro-hedge-funds dotting the Commonwealth?
General Hamilton and Dr. Smith
In 1791 Alexander Hamilton submitted as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury a now-famous Report on the Subject of Manufactures. In it he criticized arguments that the U.S.
We Can Be Actors, Not Just Spectators
On 3 September 2008, the Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin made “community organizing” part of mainstream political discourse in the United States when she mocked Barack Obama’s experie
Sanctions Alone Won’t Faze Iran
The latest Iran sanctions came into full effect last week, adding to a byzantine array of unilateral and multilateral measures that prohibit Iranian oil imports, other trade and financial transactions
Pulling the Plug on Nation’s Security
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Do Away With the Electoral College
Indeed, if we were drafting a constitution today, few people would even consider a presidential electoral system like the In a presidential election season, it seems obvious (yet again) that we shoul
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