Archive for: Summer 2010

Endpaper: What Are You Doing Next Year?

Endpaper: What Are You Doing Next Year?

The moral implications of picking a career Senior spring is a wonderful time at Harvard. Theses are done, coursework is light, and the weather has (finally) improved. I have enjoyed senior spring tremendously since turning in my thesis, and I...

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In Iraq, Messy is Better

In Iraq, Messy is Better

A close election indicates a strengthening democratic process Iraq’s parliamentary elections in March prompted a 62 percent voter turnout, with 12 million Iraqis voting for the next leaders of their fledgling democracy. For a country that has...

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Battlefield Juarez

Battlefield Juarez

Time is running out for the Mexican drug war Since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006 promising to end Mexico’s illicit drug trade, more than...

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Secularism vs. Sharia

Secularism vs. Sharia

The threat of Islamism in Turkey is overblown On Feb. 25, 2010, some 40 top Turkish military officers were arrested for allegedly plotting a coup against...

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Will Wealth Bring Democracy to Hong Kong?

Will Wealth Bring Democracy to Hong Kong?

As long as Hong Kong’s economy is booming, calls for democracy will remain on the backburner When Google stopped complying with China’s censorship laws,...

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How to Pass a Gas Tax

How to Pass a Gas Tax

The politics of an unpopular policy In 1993, President Bill Clinton pushed the last bill through Congress to increase the gas tax. Even this, however, was...

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Slimming Down America

Slimming Down America

To combat obesity and improve America’s health, change the food industry More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Childhood obesity...

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The Dangers of Direct Democracy

The Dangers of Direct Democracy

In Federalist No. 63, James Madison wrote that the defining principle of American democracy, as compared to Athenian democracy, “lies in the total exclusion of...

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The Tea Party: Past, Present, and Future

The Tea Party: Past, Present, and Future

Explaining the right-wing movement The Tea Party movement attracted a lot of attention with its vocal opposition to the Democratic health care legislation,...

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Chasing ghosts

Chasing ghosts

Green Zone’s conspiratorial world Nighttime. Baghdad. March 19, 2003. The city bursts into light as “Shock and Awe” sweeps across the desert....

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