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• 7-29-14
  

  The U.S. Must Take an Honest Look at the Costs of Spaceflight

  by Jonathan Coopersmith

  Since 1969, NASA has unsuccessfully struggled with three underlying problems.

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• 7-29-14
  

  Why We Don’t Go to the Moon Anymore

  by Matthew D. Tribbe

  In short, “the Sixties” happened, and the space program has never recovered.

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• 7-25-14
  

  Why Do We Have an Illegal Immigration Problem from Central America? We Should Know. We Helped Create It.

  by William Schell, Jr.

  Here's how this happened.

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• 7-18-14
  

  Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  Whatever the plight of faculty and students, these are boom times for campus administrators.

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• 7-20-14
  

  That Summer You're Enjoying? What Few Realize.

  by Jackson Murphy

  Until the 20th century, Summer (as we know it) was for the rich.

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• 7-27-14
  

  What Went Wrong with the American Experiment?

  by Jim Sleeper

  "Jim Sleeper is the Jonathan Edwards of civic-republicanism--and anism--and that's a compliment.”— Hendrick Hertzberg

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• 7-20-14
  

  Shouldn't the People Who Build Cities Be Able to Live in Them?

  by Pearl Duncan

  Recently, there has been discussion in New York and other cities about affordable housing for people who are workers.

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• 7-14-14
  

  How Bad Is the Hobby Lobby Ruling?

  by Dr. Emma Long

  Some of the nuance of the Court’s opinion has been overlooked.

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• 7-9-14
  

  Scalia’s an Originalist When It’s Convenient

  by Bruce Allen Murphy

  While Antonin Scalia is winning his career-long war for more governmental accommodation of religion, he is doing it by silently consenting to the further dismantling of one of his most important decisions.

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• 7-10-14
  

  Is the Right to Contraception Services Now in Danger?

  by Heather Munro Prescott

  We shall see.

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• 6-30-14
  

  The Federal Government's Scandalous Treatment of Veterans (No, Not THAT Scandal. Yet Another One.)

  by Mike Magner

  The Obama administration's blocking justice for those who served at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

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• 6-26-14
  

  These Graphs Show How Obama's Been Abusing His Power (Or Not)

  by HNN Staff

  What the statistics show about his use of executive orders.

• 
• 7-6-14
  

  How Would You Protect the President of the United States? Here's What the Secret Service Does

  by Mel Ayton

  Agents today who have been chosen for this detail are usually men and women who have great self-control during times of stress, are meticulous planners and have proven experience and merit.

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• 6-23-14
  

  The Long Struggle to Stop Employment Discrimination Against LGBT People Is Even Longer than You Think

  by Marc Stein

  There is a long history to this struggle, which began in the 1950s and accelerated after the passage of the groundbreaking 1964 legislation.

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• 6-20-14
  

  Hillary Comes out of the Closet

  by Rachel Hope Cleves

  The closet has long been a comfortable position for those willing to tolerate, but not endorse, same-sex marriage.

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• 6-30-14
  

  Have You Got a Shot at Being Elected President? The 1 in 10 Million Odds (Or Worse)

  by Cody J. Foster

  How can it be that so many American presidents are related to one another?

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• 6-22-14
  

  Channeling George Washington: Are We At War?

  by Thomas Fleming

  "If we are fighting a war, Edward Snowden’s attempt to cripple our effort to protect our citizens indicts him as a traitor." -- George Washington

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• 6-22-14
  

  The Historical Bias Against Old Presidential Candidates

  by Ashley Cruseturner

  We have only elected 3 presidents 65 or older in all of American political history.

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• 6-15-14
  

  Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You - He Already Has You

  by William J. Astore

  The militarized realities of Fortress America.

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• 6-22-14
  

  We Have a "Boy Problem" Alright, but It's Not New

  by Julia Grant

  Efforts to confront today’s “boy problem” in public education suffer from a want of historical perspective.