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The war as it has evolved badly serves U.S. interests. A well-planned disengagement will serve them much better by reducing military, economic, and political costs.
The new emphasis on WMD has not been accompanied by any serious public discussion of the differences among such weapons.
The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.
The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.
Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.
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.
Employment conditions in the United States today remain disastrous—worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s.
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