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US Navy photo via Reuters Trump Time Capsule #75: Trials by Military Tribunals
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YouTube Books by Friends: An Ongoing Series
From the use and misuse of digital medicine, to the reasons why people should want to serve on juries, with spots for craft beer, cyber-terrorism, and the hidden story of empire in between. Lots of good reading ahead.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters 'The American Prospect' Turns 25 and Has a Very Strong New Issue
The strange and striking resonance between the politics of the post-Reagan era and what the first post-Obama president will confront
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Wikimedia commons. Build Your Vocabulary, 'Ass Baton' Edition
A Mondegreen moment may be closer than you think.
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Michael Vosburg, Fargo Forum Militarization of the Police, Fargo Edition
We thought North Dakota was too sensible for this.
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Matthew Brady via Wikimedia Commons Who's the Most Accomplished Republican Strategist of the Day?
Is it Rove? Ailes? Either of the Koch brothers? Anyone in Congress? Or a statehouse? No, in fact it is...
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Wikimedia Commons Cynicism-in-Public-Life Contest, John Roberts Edition
Life tenure in any public post is bad public policy, and other implications of the latest Supreme Court rulings
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'I Cannot Figure Out Why This Was Classified to Begin With'
What the PRISM leaks have in common with the Pentagon Papers
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One Author, Two Good Articles
Robert Kuttner with an appreciation of an influential economist and an exhortation to a serving president
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But What If Obama Loses the Popular Vote?
A silver lining: the beginning of a bipartisan effort to get rid of the outdated and destructive Electoral College system
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An Interview with Chen Guangcheng: 'Be Confident and Speak Out'
China's best-known activist for civil liberties and rule of law, now exiled in the United States, explains why he is optimistic about China's "inevitable" emergence as a democracy that respects its people's rights.
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'The Worst Thing That Has Happened to Our Democratic Election System'
The under-covered story of this election cycle.
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Good for John Roberts
The Chief Justice comes down on the side of his institution
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'The Two Great Classes—Tramps and Millionaires'
A message from 1892 worth considering today.
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SCOTUS Follow-Up: The Perils of Too Many 5-4 Rulings
What we can guess about the court's ruling on the health-care case, based on what we know about its Arizona-immigration decision
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5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics
The pattern of events in American politics should worry us all.
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SCOTUS Update: La Loi, C'est Moi
The norms that govern political action are changing, perhaps most of all on the Supreme Court.
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American Dysfunction Watch: State of the Judiciary
The self-defeat of America, Chapter 12,825
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Obama and Roberts: The View From 2005
Did a freshman senator understand a future Chief Justice better than the Justice understand himself?
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In Praise of the WSJ Ed Page—No, Seriously!
We knew it would happen someday: a complaint from the right, about right-wing excess.
