Features
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The Populist Road to Hell: Term Limits in California
It sounded like a good idea, but if California is any indication, term limits are a recipe for political chaos and increased special interest influence.
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Children's Crusade
They're at it again -- conservatives are masquerading as the patrons of the young. Before you buy it, think carefully about how much kids and young adults depend upon activist government.
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Carol M. Swain Responds
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Racial Redistricting Redux
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Of Our Time: Fearful Symmetry
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CORRECTION
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How Low Can You Go?
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Orwell's Poor and Ours
Orwell depicted the poor unsentimentally, but with compassion and economic realism. Today's conservative critics, who blame poverty on an absence of values, do neither.
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The Inflated Case Against the CPI
A consensus seemingly has emerged that the consumer price index exaggerates inflation. But before we change the numbers, we had better look closely at the arguments. They don't hold up.
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Does Liberalism Cause Sex?
Conservatives say liberalized access to contraceptives and sex education in the schools have led to more unprotected teen sex and teen births. But let's look at the evidence.
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Moving From the 'Hood: The Mixed Success of Integrating Suburbia
In theory, dispersing the poor to better suburban schools, jobs, and housing was a bipartisan alternative to housing projects and ghetto unemployment. But, surprise, nobody wanted them in the neighborhood.
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Dear Brother Sweeney: An Open Letter to Labor's New Leader
Get out of Washington, hire the idealistic young, and turn Labor back into a movement.
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Come the Devolution
You say you want a devolution? Then pay very close attention to the details, most of which stick the states with more liabilities -- and fewer resources.
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Toxic Cash: How Lobbyists Poisoned the EPA
Despite some eleventh-hour heroics by environmentalists, the Republican Congress has been offering lots of goodies to industry polluters -- thanks largely to the corporate lobbyists who wrote much of the legislation.
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The Strange Disappearance of Civic America
A year ago the author set off a national debate with his article, "Bowling Alone," which reported a pervasive decline in voluntary association and mutual trust among Americans. Now he sifts through the plausible explanations.
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Devil in the Details
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Cosmopolitics
