Features
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When Should Kids Go to Jail?
For nearly a century, childhood has been a mitigating condition in the eyes of the criminal law. Now that legislators want to try more children as adults, we need to be careful about throwing the baby out with the jail key.
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State of the Debate: Dolly and Madison
The cloning debate has highlighted moral questions that are likely only to become even more difficult as biotechnology advances: What should be the line between permissible and impermissible genetic interventions? Is our bedrock belief in human equality about to break down?
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Behind the Numbers: The Great Surplus Debate
Three views of what to do with the budget surplus.
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A Liberal Tax Revolt
Liberals ought to start playing offense on taxes. Progressive tax policy can be good politics.
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Reform Beyond the Beltway
While Congress is deadlocked, real campaign finance reform is moving ahead in the states.
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The Porter Prescription
Michael Porter, management consultant extraordinaire, has now brought his theory of competitive advantage to the inner city. Bold new ideas -- or an old elixir in a new bottle?
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Party Decline
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Old Party, New Energy
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The Broken Engine of Progressive Politics
The gears of the American change machine -- presidents, parties, and social movements -- no longer work together. A new view of America's major political transformations, from Jefferson and Jackson down to the current disarray of progressive forces.
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Morning in Miami
It's not only the pope who believes the U.S. should lift its embargo. A growing number of Cuban Americans think the old hard-line strategy to oust Castro just isn't working.
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Unchecked and Unbalanced
Kenneth Starr's behavior as independent counsel follows a pattern set in other investigations: the problem lies in the incentives and unchecked power of the office.
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How Low Can You Go? Made of Sterner Stuff
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Of Our Time: My Dinner with Bill
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Below the Beltway: The Irresponsible Elites
