Category: Politics and Current Events
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Today’s post is from Wendy Kaminer, author of many books, including Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU and Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Nation, and she is a correspondent for the Atlantic, where…
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“I could not go alone anywhere outside Kabul… All the traffic and reconstruction activity in Kabul was weird; sort of an illusion of security and progress that in reality doesn’t exist at all.”
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Today's post is from David W. Moore, author of The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls (out in hardcover now, paperback with a new afterword available this fall). Moore is a senior fellow of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, and he is a former senior editor of…
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Thomas N. DeWolf is the author of Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. Tom speaks regularly at schools, conferences, and other events around the country. For further information go to: www.inheritingthetrade.com, where you can also find his Inheriting the Trade blog, where this post…
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The author of Write These Laws on Your Children explains the connection between homeschooling and delay in the US ratification of a UN treaty to protect children.
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A tribute to Senator Kennedy from an author who got to know him through thirty-year-old transcripts.
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In the second installment of a two-part post, David W. Moore looks at the historical lessons Democrats should heed in the mid-term elections.
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Polling expert David Moore turns a skeptical eye on polls predicting a too-sunny future for the Democrats.
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A look at recent evictions in a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and Israeli efforts to “Judaize” the city.
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Kai Wright explores the current conservative backlash and the self-defeating fear at the root of racial anxieties.
