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Border Security After 9/11: Ten Years of Waste, Immigrant Crackdowns and New Drug Wars
People crossing the Paso del Norte bridge linking Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, on January 28, 2011. (Photo: Katie Orlinsky / The New York Times) …
EU Steps Toward Common Aid
Brussels - The European Commission has decided to push for more ambitious reforms ahead of the aid effectiveness summit to be held in Busan later this year. The European …
The Legacy of 9/11 and the War on Intellectuals
(Photo: Bob Jagendorf / Flickr) Ten years after 9/11, for the first time, a plurality of Americans recognizes that US policy in the Middle East played a …
The Great Bank Robbery
New York – For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over …
Business as Usual Is Destroying America
(Photo: Brent Danley / Flickr) The national efforts to stem the tide of pollution in the 1960s and 1970s made a difference: Americans had the Environmental Protection …
Hail to the True Victors of Rupert’s Revolution
Muammar Qaddafi. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt / Wikimedia) On 13 September, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On …
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
(Image: Center for Economic and Policy Research) Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more …
The Kids Count
(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) ‘'If the top earners are O.K., then the rest of us will be O.K.'’ That piece of economic sleight of …
An Unending Crisis – America in the 21st Century
The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.
On China Did Huntsman Blame America First?
In last night's Republican Presidential debate, former US Ambassador to China and Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was asked about Gov. Mitt Romney's call to confront China over their trade …