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Aziz Z. Huq is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and coauthor of Unchecked And Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror.
We need a model of ownership that recognizes our collective interests.
Two conflicting visions of equality have recently emerged on the American political left. Only one aims at institutional change.
It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.
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