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• 12-2-13
  

  How the New Deal Defines the Debate Over Obamacare

  by David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd

  Lessons from Messrs. Roosevelt and Hoover.

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• 12-2-13
  

  Channelling George Washington: Should Obama Have Gone to Gettysburg?

  by Thomas Fleming

  Our first black president is proof that we've finally had a new birth of freedom in America. But it's complicated.

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• 12-2-13
  

  Corporations Can Speak... But Can They Also Be Religious?

  by Emma Long

  The Supreme Court will consider religious exemption challenges to Obamacare in the upcoming term.

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• 12-2-13
  

  The Battle for Ohio's Middle Class

  by John T. McNay

  Labor's 2011 victory in Ohio offers a blueprint for the future.

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• 11-18-13
  

  Is the "Yellow Peril" Dead?

  by Ellen D. Wu

  How Asian Americans became the model minority -- and why whites still consider them to be a threat.

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• 11-11-13
  

  Raise the Minimum Wage

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  The richest nation on earth has millions of full-time employees earning poverty-level wages.

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• 11-4-13
  

  Obamacare's Implementers Could Learn a Little from Software Engineering History 101

  by Paul E. Ceruzzi

  A 1968 NATO science conference offers some lessons in basic best-practices.

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• 11-4-13
  

  The Government Shutdown Affected Agriculture, Too

  by Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn

  The federal government plays a critical role in prevent rampant agricultural speculation. But it wasn't playing that role during the shutdown.

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• 10-25-13
  

  Military Oaths Shouldn't End With "So Help Me God"

  by Chris Rodda

  The Founders never intended a religious test for military oaths, so what's behind the Air Force's convoluted swearing-in policy?

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• 10-21-13
  

  Is There Intelligent Life Among Republicans?

  by Richard Striner

  Conservative leaders say the GOP must not become the "stupid party." How's that going?

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• 10-21-13
  

  Chris Christie and the Legacy of New Jersey’s Rosa Parks

  by Michael Stewart Foley

  Christie is attempting to unmake the legacy of New Jersey civil rights icon and fair housing activist Ethel Lawrence.

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• 10-14-13
  

  The President Should Take the Lead in Crafting Legislation

  by Glenn Speer

  Just ask Messrs. Wilson and Johnson.

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• 10-14-13
  

  How to Fix Congress? The States Should Propose a New Constitutional Convention.

  by Richard Striner

  Article V stipulates that two-thirds of the states can force Congress to call a constitutional convention.

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• 10-14-13
  

  Acting with Impunity: The Case of General Electric

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  General Electric ships jobs overseas, doesn't pay taxes, and actively endangers Americans.

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• 10-9-13
  

  A Brief History of the Federal Debt Limit

  by D. Andrew Austin and Mindy R. Levit

  The Congressional Research Service reports on the history of the debt.

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• 10-8-13
  

  Where Does the Eavesdropping Scandal End?

  by John Prados

  At this rate, American citizens will be the only ones whom the NSA can safely intercept.

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• 10-8-13
  

  The Government Shutdown: Politics as War by Other Means

  by Paul J. Croce

  And just like the generals of World War I, our leaders in Washington have no idea how to break the stalemate.

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• 10-7-13
  

  Some States are Still Denying Benefits to Same-Sex Military Couples

  by Rawn James, Jr.

  But it's a pointless piece of political theater -- gay marriage is now backed by the Pentagon.

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• 10-3-13
  

  One Hundred Years to Open All the Presidents’ Records?

  by Anthony Clark

  Records from the Clinton Library show then-Associate White House Counsel Kagan's key role in drafting legal policy.

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• 10-7-13
  

  Seven Lessons for Presidential Aspirants from JFK

  by John T. Shaw

  JFK's presidential run in 1960 could be a blueprint for a score of Democrats in 2016.