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The Forum is our signature feature, bringing writers, scholars, and activists into dialogue about fundamental issues and pressing challenges.
Libertarianism and Liberty
It’s not clear how libertarians argue from their starting point of liberty to their policy conclusion of limited government and lower taxes.
Regime Change Doesn’t Work
History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.
China’s Other Revolution
Though there has been no “Chinese Spring,” it would be hard to describe what has transpired in China over the past twenty years as anything but a revolution.
Fixing Congress
In politics as in life, you get what you pay for. In politics today, taxpayers are hiring mediocre talent, candidates who think their job is to duck the big policy issues in order to get elected and reelected.
Can Technology End Poverty?
Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.
Democracy after Citizens United
The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.
Mothers Who Care Too Much
Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.
Big Pharma, Bad Medicine
Conflicts of interest undermine the goals of medical care and harm the public.
The Rules
The market should deliver public benefits, and government can help ensure that the bounties of capitalism actually are shared for the good of wider society.
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