ARCHIVE:
The Big Idea
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Obama's Brilliant First Year
By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt.
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The End of Prohibition
Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.
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Ignore Fox
Obama's right. It's time to stop taking the network's skewed news seriously.
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Neo-Neo-Cons
Irving Kristol saved the right from intellectual bankruptcy in the '60s. Who will save it now?
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First They Came for the Marlboros
The hazards of Michael Bloomberg's paternalist utopia.
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New President, Old Mistake
Is Obama trying too hard not to be like his predecessors?
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Health, American-Style
Americans get the care they deserve: innovative, expensive, and wasteful.
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How To Lean on Israel
There are three ways for Obama to pressure the Israelis. Each is incredibly difficult.
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All the President's Accomplices
How the country acquiesced to Bush's torture policy.
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A Tale of Two Lobbyists
What's wrong with Obama's order barring lobbyists from his administration?
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What Else Are We Wrong About?
The danger of nuclear proliferation and other possible fallacies.
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The Case for Bankers
They're not all villainous scum. And besides, we really need them.
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What Does Obama Think Government Should Do?
He still hasn't told us. That's worrisome.
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The Enigma in Chief
We still don't know how or why Bush made the key decisions of his administration.
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Political Corruption Smackdown
Which state is the most crooked—Illinois or Louisiana?
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The Genius Cabinet
Why the president-elect should surround himself with brilliant—albeit prickly, semi-autistic, and egomaniacal—thinkers.
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The End of Libertarianism
The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense.
