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National Journal Becoming Europe
Both liberals and conservatives see danger as U.S. income equality grows. But they disagree about what to do.
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Red, White, and Gray: The High Cost, and High Rewards, of Longer Lives
Americans' rising longevity threatens fiscal calamity and generational warfare. But with improvements in health and political courage, a grayer society will grow in wealth.
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Jason Grow No, Malthus, No: Living Longer Is a Blessing, Not a Curse
Americans' rising longevity threatens fiscal calamity and generational warfare. But with improvements in health and political courage, a grayer society will grow in wealth.
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A Cure: Inflation
For the U.S. economy to recover, now that it's dogged by debt, Kenneth Rogoff has a novel solution: Print money.
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Jason Grow A Dream Endangered. (Yeah, So?)
Has homeownership been oversold as an essential part of the American Dream? As an investment or a social good, it probably has. But it's no less alluring.
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China’s Copper Road
Beijing is courting Santiago. Will Chileans come to like Chairman Mao more than Uncle Sam?
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My Lunch With Litvinenko
In 2002, Atlantic contributing editor Paul Starobin sat down with Alexander Litvinenko for an interview over lunch. They talked about Litvinenko's defection, his relationship with notorious Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, and his suspicions about Putin and the FSB. Following Litvinenko's recent poisoning, Starobin dug out his notes.
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The Man With the Golden Phone
Before Mark Warner was a politician, he was a wildly successful entrepreneur—and his success as a huckster shows why he may be a formidable challenger for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination
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Murder in Kazakhstan
Two of the men Paul Starobin interviewed for his December Atlantic piece on Kazakhstan's autocratic president have since been killed. Starobin comments
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Misfit America
Many of the values and cultural attributes that once made the United States unique have eroded; those that remain look increasingly ugly to some foreigners. Is our evolving national character a liability in our foreign relations?
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Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters Kazakhstan’s Tolerated Dictator
Nursultan Nazarbayev has enough oil to make himself into anything he wants.
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The Accidental Autocrat
Vladimir Putin is not a democrat. Nor is he a czar like Alexander III, a paranoid like Stalin, or a religious nationalist like Dostoyevsky. But he is a little of all these—which is just what Russians seem to want
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Dawn of the Daddy State
If terrorism has made a global trend toward greater state power inevitable, then it's important to get authoritarianism right. Here's how
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Phil Noble / Reuters The Angry American
Social rage as a measure of the country's moral and political well-being
