Why Americans Might Be Missing George W. Bush
Missing W? This Republican field can make a liberal downright sentimental.
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The Big Stick and Its Growth Under President Obama
President Obama has been way more interventionist than Candidate Obama said he would be.
Live Blog: “America’s Bush/Cheney Foreign Policy: Why Hasn’t It Changed?”
10/21/10, 5:02 PM: I’m sitting in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium right now, watching Hersh’s lecture. This live blog attempts an accurate representation on his views. His main point is that Obama, who was elected as a candidate of “change”, has not strayed much from the trail of the Bush Doctrine. Seymour Hersh, one of America’s most well-known investigative journalists, is [...]
House Democrats Vote to Raise Taxes
Just before its Memorial Day recess, the House passed a bill that, according to The New York Times, would raise the taxes that investment managers pay on carried interest, just at the moment new long-term investment is most needed. General executive partners of long-term investment partnerships, including investments in real estate, venture capital, private equity, and other investments, are paid [...]
Fights over Federalism
States gaining voice on drug laws When Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in June 1971, he had little idea that he was also engaging Washington in a war with the states. In the decades since, the federal government has frequently asserted its primacy over the states on drug laws, despite the opposition of states-rights proponents. California began [...]
In Need of Assistance
Reforming foreign aid at home In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush made a sweeping commitment to global economic development. In early 2002, he declared, “We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror. We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity.” Development was to be a vital [...]
After Woodstock
Protest music for a new generation The anniversary of Woodstock has come and gone, and with it scores of revitalized folk records and overused tie-dye designs. Many years have passed since the anti-Vietnam movement flooded the streets of America, and time has brought international conflict, economic downturns, and changes in the ideology of our political leaders. The question left in [...]
Averting Armaggedon: Apposite Approaches
In one strictly limited sense, modern man has become as God; he has acquired the ability to destroy the world. After the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union acquired massive reserves of the devices. While many in both nations would like to decrease the megatonnage they aim at each other, the prospect [...]
