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Eric Thayer/Reuters Do Tech Companies Owe It to the Public to Cooperate With Surveillance?
Private firms have become uneasy about keeping tabs on customers, but they should put collective safety ahead of profit.
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Larry Downing/Reuters Obama's Timid Budget
The president vows to tackle inequality, but his cautious proposals are bound to disappoint those who believe his promises.
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Michael Dwyer/AP The Left's Unpopular Populism
Elizabeth Warren and her Democratic allies should not fool themselves into thinking that Americans who are angry at elites and corporations also favor wealth redistribution.
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Steve Helber/AP Bob McDonnell's Corruption: The Real Scandal Is What's Legal
Why does the system penalize quid pro quo bribery severely but shrug off the malign effects of campaign donations?
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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Don't Sweat the Microaggressions
The old pitfalls of new sensitivities in political speech
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Reuters Who Will Guard The Guardian?
The newspaper's editor defends Edward Snowden-related scoops with flimsy, self-contradictory reasoning.
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Reuters Transparency Is Overrated
In a representative democracy, data only goes so far—and knowledge is no substitute for real regulation.
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Reuters The NSA Panel's Pointless Private-Sector Fig Leaf
Turning phone-metadata collection over to telephone companies or a third party introduces new security risks without meaningfully addressing civil-liberties concerns.
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Reuters Obama's Misguided Focus on Inequality
Until Democrats—liberals and centrists alike—show government can work, the public won't be receptive to government-driven social-justice proposals.
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Columbia Pictures Are Libertarians Going Soft?
Strange times: Paul Ryan embraces anti-poverty programs, business groups strike back, and The Economist lauds regulation and downplays privacy concerns.
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Reuters Why Is Obama Ready to Fold in Budget Talks?
Fresh off a political victory over the GOP, he's offering to slash entitlements with chained CPI—a regressive tax increase—and pointless cuts to Medicare.
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Reuters The Tea Party Is Winning—the Liberal Agenda Is Being Suffocated
Progressives are gleeful: They took Larry Summers down, and now the GOP is self-destructing over defunding Obamacare. But they're missing the big picture.
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The Case for Keeping Whistleblowers Nervous
A free society requires vigilant protection of a free press—and of national security. Each poses full legitimate claims, and neither should a priori trump the other.
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What John Kerry Can Learn From John F. Kennedy
How small concessions can help ease massive conflicts, from the Cold War to the Middle East.
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Charge American Terrorists With Treason
Individuals like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or Anwar al-Awlaki shouldn't be classified as enemy combatants, nor should we pretend they are common criminals.
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Why It Should Be Harder to Impeach a President
The majority of Republicans wanted to impeach Obama before the latest scandals. High partisanship and a low legal threshold are a recipe for self-destruction.
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The Liberal Narrative Is Broken, and Only Populism Can Fix It
The left dare not answer conservatives by simply saying government is good. Instead, it must make special interests a rallying cry.
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Everything Libertarians and Liberals Get Wrong About Drones
The main point of judgment comes before one asks which means are legitimate when attacking an enemy -- it is whether we should fight at all.
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Incorrigible
Bringing social hope and political rhetoric into instructive contact with what it means to be human
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Washington: Teledemocracy
Ross Perot left the residue of a good idea behind him: the electronic town meeting
