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The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation

 If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Securing Arizona

What Americans Can Learn From Their Rogue State

  • Tom Barry

Capitol Insiders

Solidarity and Sleepovers in Madison

  • Leigh Elion

The Wrong Crisis

The FCIC forgets the housing bubble

  • Dean Baker

Poor Reason

Culture still doesn’t explain poverty.

  • Stephen Steinberg

Back to Full Employment

It is fundamental to building a decent society—and we can get there.

  • Robert Pollin
with responses from
  • Reihan Salam
  • James K. Galbraith
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Eileen Appelbaum
  • Andrew P. Morris & Roger E. Meiners
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Michael J. Piore

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Robocop

Drones at home.

  • Joseph Nevins

Ten Years After Bush v. Gore

The case casts a shadow far beyond the Court’s election-law docket.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Unsafe Seats

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

The Heinrich Maneuver

The success of the New Mexico freshman. 

  • Andrew Schrank

Legerdemath

In my time working at Citigroup, I learned how to connive customers.

  • Omer Rosen

Heckuva Job

After the Charles Keating scandal, I thought Darrel Dochow would never supervise banks again. I was wrong.

  • Richard Newsom

No Objections

What history tells us about remaking marriage

  • Nancy F. Cott

Business As Usual

We’re just biding time for the next Wall Street collapse.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Midterm Postmortem

 The Democrats suffered a historic defeat.

  • Eric McGhee
  • Brendan Nyhan
  • John Sides

The Deficit Commission’s Parallel Universe

The failings of the Simpson-Bowles report

  • Dean Baker

Urban Legends

It's time to rethink the concept of the "inner city."

  • William Rankin

Acting Out

The question is not whether federal judges should strike down popularly enacted policies, but when.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Worst of the Worst

On supermax torture in America.

  • Lance Tapley

A Question of Character

  • David M. Kennedy

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

  • Susan Reverby

At War In Texas

Federal border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians.

  • Tom Barry

Originalism Spells the Death of the U.S. Constitution

The median lifespan of a national constitution is roughly the life expectancy of a Great Dane. Why has the U.S. Constitution endured? In part because judges have escaped the stranglehold of originalism.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Real Americans

Repeatedly in U.S. history, liberalism and populism have defined themselves by rhetorical rejection of the other.

  • William Hogeland
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