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From Harper’s, July 2009: Kevin Baker on Barack Hoover Obama From “Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again” by Kevin Baker in the July 2009 Harper’s.…

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From Harper’s, 2004: Scott Ritter on Scott Speicher From “Missing in Iraq: The United States has not found Scott Speicher either” by Scott Ritter in the June 2004 Harper’s. On…

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From Harper’s: Eric Janszen on the next bubble From The Next Bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow’s big crash, by Eric Janszen, in the February 2008 Harper’s. A financial bubble…

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Kevin Baker appears on The Colbert Report The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Kevin Baker www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report…

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Kevin Baker on Colbert Tonight Kevin Baker appears on the The Colbert Report tonight to discuss his article “Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again”–available now…

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The conversation we ought to be having in response to the July 16 incident and its heated aftermath isn’t about race, it’s about police arrest powers, and the right to…

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The most inane and disingenuous part of [potential director of the National Institutes of Health Francis S.] Collins’s argument is his claim that without religion, the concepts of good and…

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I know that content wants to be free on the Internet. I know that the horse was long ago shown the barn door and that, belatedly, the idea of creating…

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From Harper’s, February 1955: W.W. Rostow on why communism may fail I am by profession an economist and economic historian. The bulk of my academic life has been taken up…

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At a typical Randall Terry press conference one can expect to hear all sorts of overheated rhetoric about abortion– that it’s murder, that abortion clinics are places of “mass genocide,”…

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Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush’s evangelically-driven education policy, according to…

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We’ve known for years that the Bush administration ignored and broke the law repeatedly in the name of national security. It is now clear that many of those programs could…

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From Harper’s:Barry Graham on Sheriff Joe Arpaio From “Star of Justice: On the job with America’s toughest sheriff,” by Barry Graham, in the April 2001 Harper’s. You are a citizen…

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When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, but before its actual collapse, a mysterious rupture often takes place. All of a sudden, people know the game is up: they…

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For almost half the world’s population, water-related dreams and fears intersect in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau. Other regions have their share of conflicting claims over water issues:…

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Since the days of Jimmy Carter, both Democratic and Republican presidents have vowed to curb the paper-shuffling. Printers, who do the heavy lifting when bureaucrats dream up new forms, say…

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Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American…

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For paleontologists like Dr. Sato, layers of bedrock represent an accumulation over hundreds of millions of years, and the Lower Jurassic is much older than the Upper Cretaceous. But here…

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I did not vote for Sarah Palin in the November election, and had I been a resident of South Carolina, I wouldn’t have supported Mark Sanford. But I find their…

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While most in the US were celebrating the 4th of July, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing top-secret computer trading codes…

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Even as the biggest banks have reached up for billions in federal aid, they have reached down to collect more and more penalty fees from consumers… The rates are rising…

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Every Afghan ruler in the 20th century was assassinated, lynched or deposed. The Communist government tried to tear down the old structures of mullah and khan; the anti-Soviet jihad set…

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As newspapers and magazines shrink and shutter their book review sections, one could easily fret that with them will go that other great literary institution: the author-critic feud. Fortunately, as…

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From Harper’s:Rowan Jacobsen on Alaska’s disappearing salmon From “Fast fish, loose fish: Who will own Alaska’s disappearing salmon?” by Rowan Jacobsen, from the May 2009 Harper’s Magazine. The commercial fishing…

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Striding angrily through the aisles with a retinue of glum executives in tow, Mr Putin came to a halt in the supermarket’s cold meat section and gesticulated towards a packet…

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From Harper’s: L. J. Davis on theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed. From “The Encyclopedia of Insanity: A psychiatric handbook lists a madness for everyone,” by L.…

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Waxman and Markey’s original legislation called for a reduction in carbon emissions of 25 percent by 2025. Sensing resistance, they went down to 20 percent by 2020. But legislators from…

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The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country does, and studies have suggested that as much as 30% of it— perhaps $700 billion a year— may be…

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