The Obama Administration
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Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Jul 20, 2015Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go.
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Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
Sep 21, 2015The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.
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The Fundamentals of Immigration Reform
Mar 12, 2013To begin fixing America’s broken system, we must be guided by both our highest values and our economic needs.
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On Realism, Old and New
Oct 29, 2014With new threats to the peace, it’s more important than ever to be clear about America’s core national interests.
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Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Nov 10, 2014Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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Sex, Lies and Justice
Jan 12, 2015Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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Blind to the Future
Feb 01, 2015Chris Christie and the Republican default on public investment.
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A Needless Default
Feb 08, 2015The administration’s foreclosure relief program was designed to help bankers, not homeowners. That disgrace will haunt Democrats.
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The Sensible, Risky Option
Apr 15, 2015The Iran deal is a gamble, but the best one available.
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Why Public Silence Greets Government Success
May 08, 2015Hardly anyone notices when government works—so how to design policies that get credit?
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The Cyber Conundrum
Jun 01, 2015Why the current policy for national cyber defense leaves us open to attack.
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A Shocking Outbreak of Intellectual Consistency
Jun 07, 2013On NSA surveillance, there is much less hypocrisy than you might expect.
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The Verizon Data Order and Why It Matters
Jun 06, 2013Creating "national security" exemptions to the Fourth Amendment in the context of an open-ended conflict where the whole world is the battlefield and the conflict has no clear end point is very dangerous.
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The Right's Cult of Obama
Jun 06, 2013From Peggy Noonan to Mitch McConnell to the Tea Party caucus, conservatives have a habit of making it all about Barack, all the time.
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a President ...
Jun 06, 2013The president's job requirements aren't laid out very well in the Constitution. The position is mostly an empty shell filled up with 44 presidencies worth of precedents.
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Republicans Mad that President They Despise, Obstruct, and Lie About Doesn't Call More Often
Jun 05, 2013There's just no pleasing some people.
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Let's Talk about Tax Reform
Jun 05, 2013Yes, the IRS scandal has nothing to do with the kind of reforms Republicans say they want. But why not start the process?
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Why Republicans Can't Destroy Obama
Jun 04, 2013All they have is their anger, when what they need is a competent effort to undo the presidency.
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Not Too Shabby So Far: Obama's Judicial Legacy
May 31, 2013Liberals may not be happy about the rate at which Obama has filled vacancies, but they ought to give him credit for significantly increasing diversity on the federal bench. And he still has three years to go.
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Shorting the D.C. Circuit
May 29, 2013Even if his three simultaneous judicial nominees are blocked, it's a win-win situation for the president that just might mean the beginning of the end for the filibuster.
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Children of the Great Collapse
May 29, 2013The stimulus was great for poor kids while it lasted. Now even bare-bones aid is at risk.
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Republicans Looking Sheepish On Obama Court Nominees
May 28, 2013They're hoping they can obstruct quietly, without drawing too much attention.
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King Obama the Magical
May 28, 2013The president may not be a heroic monarch, but the image works to his advantage.
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Republican Overreach, Coming Soon
May 24, 2013Republican members of Congress will come back from their recess even more convinced that their constituents want them to keep up the scandal-mongering.
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The Forever War, Still Forever
May 23, 2013President Obama may give the war on terror some minor adjustments, but it endures.
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A Week of Bleak Metaphors
May 23, 2013Tornados, IRS scandal, Benghazi scrutiny, and wire-tapping; the country has seen its fill of bad omens and forboding in recent days. What's Obama to do to change the narrative?
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