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Politics

Time to Update the Website

By Matthew Yglesias
September 9, 2007
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You won't be surprised to learn that I'm not super-impressed by the US Institute of Peace's plan to end American military involvement in Iraq in five years. The release did, however, pique my curiosity about the USIP board. The only name I recognized was of the late Seymour Martin Lipset, who was a great political sociologist before dying last year.