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Clive Crook

Clive Crook - Clive Crook is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a columnist for Bloomberg View. He was the Washington columnist for the Financial Times, and before that worked at The Economist for more than 20 years, including 11 years as deputy editor. Crook writes about the intersection of politics and economics. More

Crook writes about the intersection of politics and economics.

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By Clive Crook
Dec 4 2009, 4:41 PM ET Comment

Why Copenhagen must be the end of the beginning. Martin Wolf, FT.

Better news from the US jobs market. Jeff Zeleny, NYT.

How polarised is Amerca? Stuart Taylor, National Journal. Stuart writes about Morris Fiorina's new book.

The Senate: where progressive legislation goes to die. Alan Abramowitz, Crystal Ball. Abramowitz (who by the way has sparred with Fiorina over polarisation) asks why Senate Democrats don't just abolish the filibuster. He says they could do it by simple majority vote: "All it takes is the political will..." Is it quite that simple?

The filibuster and the constitution, part one. The filibuster and the constitution, part two. Vikram David Amar, FindLaw.

 

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