This week on our weekly podcast: Adam Serwer, Monica Potts, and Pema Levy talk about the evolving protests in Egypt, and the right-wing smear campaign against Planned Parenthood.
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The Liberal Uses of Power
It is a shame there will never be a debate about foreign policy between the George W. Bush who ran for president in 2000 and the one who now occupies the office. As a candidate five years ago, Bush said that the United States should act as a “humble nation” toward the rest of the […]
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Rwanda, Kosovo, and the Limits of Justice
The experience of genocide has forever altered our understanding of criminality. Should it change our approach to justice?
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The Real China Question
How to admit China and other former communist countries into the world trading club–without destroying the international economic system in the process.
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Breaching the Great Wall
China’s neomercantalism harms America’s economic interests. A mutually beneficial relationship will take more assertive trade policies.
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What Japan Teaches Us Now
Japan’s economic crisis is a case study in the long-term costs of protecting inefficient industries. Yet it also shows how the pressures for protectionism become irresistible without a strong safety net and policies to aid displaced workers.
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The Chile Con
Advocates of privatizing Social Security point to Chile. But take a closer look at who’s really benefiting from the Chilean system.
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Return of the Native
Isolationism is rising among Republicans along with antigovernment fervor. Is Bob Dole — as Newt Gingrich says — another Bob Taft?
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Rorschach Politics
Sometimes political ideology is in the eye of the beholder. That’s one of the secrets of the prime minister’s striking success.
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What Russia Teaches Us Now
Metastasizing organized crime, massive tax evasion, unregulated sales of missiles–the people of Russia and the world now have more to fear from the breakdown of the Russian state than from its power. Why liberty itself depends on competent government.