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Influence

Light, Sweet, Crude

A former U.S. ambassador peddles influence in Afghanistan

The Age of Cruelty

by Jeff Madrick,

Following heavy Democratic losses in the 2010 congressional elections, Barack Obama announced that he was reading a biography of Ronald Reagan to see how the great man had handled his…

A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Occasioned by the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war

Blood Sport

by Thomas Frank,

For a time in December, it looked as though the nation was finally ready to take on the gun culture. Perhaps you recall the moment: twenty grade-schoolers, along with their…