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Peretz Partensky/Flickr A Very Simple Way to Defuse Political Fights
Just hearing an ideological opponent make a minor concession creates significant differences in how people view them.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters ISIS and the Forgotten, Deadly Threat of Homegrown Terrorism
Since 9/11, Americans radicalized in the U.S. have been most lethal. So why isn't there more debate about the risk of blowback from military action?
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Reuters Will Marijuana Retailers Target the Poor and Minorities?
Andrew Sullivan and David Frum debate major issues posed by legalization in Colorado and beyond.
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Shutterstock The Tragedy of Common-Sense Morality
Why do people fight so much?
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Ji Lee Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality
Squaring recent research suggesting we're "naturally moral" with all the strife in the world
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Drone Strikes and the Boston Marathon Bombing
The more we learn about the Boston Marathon bombing, the more reason there is to doubt the wisdom of Obama's drone-heavy approach to fighting terrorism.
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Signing Off
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Podcasts to Try in 2013
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Should Buddhist Meditation Make You Happy?
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Can Obama Avert the Fiscal Cliff Without Mitch McConnell?
The consensus is that the president needs Senate Republican to prevent the fiscal cliff. But what if that's not true?
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Chuck Hagel Gets His Second Wind
A Tom Friedman column and a letter from former national security advisers come as some observers were starting to think Hagel's candidacy was on life support.
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Is There a Right to Bear Machine Guns?
What about grenade launchers? Or shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles? Jacob Sullum of Reason gives his take.
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Chuck Hagel and the Neocon Smear Machine
In pre-emptively opposing his nomination for secretary of defense, The Weekly Standard is employing a two-tiered strategy: the low road and the lower road.
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A Gun Control Law That Would Actually Work
Is there a single legitimate use of firearms that requires more than six rounds of continuous fire?
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Retreating Into Meditation
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Why Not Push the Pentagon off the Fiscal Cliff?
If our military resources really did shrink significantly, how much damage would that do to our national security? Here's my initial estimate: zero.
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What If the Fiscal Cliff Is the Wrong Cliff?
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How Obama Could Stop Those Israeli Settlements
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A Republican Secretary of State?
Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, Bob Zoellick, and Jon Huntsman have been mentioned as contenders. Susan Rice, however, still lacks advocates.
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William Burns for Secretary of State?
If Susan Rice's nomination hopes evaporate, don't look to default candidate John Kerry. Look to the current deputy secretary.
