Abolish Public Employee Unions
Although labor unions remain a necessary institution in America, the public sector variety threatens the fiscal future of our most populous state. READ MORE
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Kerry Howley
July/August 2009
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Microcredit loans might net an extra $700 over the course of a lifetime. Working stateside brings in the same amount in a month. READ MORE
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President Obama’s skills and charisma just might bring Sunni Arabs and Israeli Jews together, but he will be helped inestimably if he considers that the road to peace runs not through Jerusalem but through Karbala. Consider the possibility of a grand, if necessarily implicit, Jewish-Sunni alliance as a gift to Obama from his predecessor.
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From “How Iran Could Save the Middle East,” July/August 2009
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Correspondents: Edward Tenner
9 July 2009
McNamara’s Dreams of Reason
Calm deliberation can mask doubtful assumptions. As Chesterton said, the madman is he who has lost everything but his reason (R. W. Savatt, Jr./AFP/Getty Images). READ MORE
Prime Time Nurse
A pair of new TV shows—HawthoRNe and Nurse Jackie—finally puts nurses front and center. One contributes to longstanding misconceptions about the profession, the other nails real-life nursing like never before. READ MORE
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The Pawlenty Plan
The Minnesota governor talks about Al Franken, the Republican Party’s “rebuilding year,” and his own plans for 2012 READ MORE
Correspondents: Graeme Wood
9 July 2009
Explosions on the Road
“The boom arrived like a thief, stealing my senses from two hundred meters, rattling my eyes in their sockets, and flinging up a huge cloud of dust and sand.” READ MORE
Give Struggling Authors a Chance
It’s not too late to save the novel—through innovative tax breaks READ MORE
