How Mao is Outsmarting Madison in American K-12 Classrooms
In a legislative blitz last week, the House of Representatives passed 25 bills to counter Beijing’s growing influence and protect Americans from threats associated with everything...
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Losing Latin America
The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance
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These not-so-united states
The People’s Democratic Republic of Oregon. That has a kind of ring to it, don’t you think? The reason this phrase has crystalized in my mind: Just after it was confirmed that Donald...
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American Exceptionalism and Its Discontents
The U.S. has unique responsibilities. Is that so hard to understand?
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Secretary Clinton and ‘Real Democracy’ in the Middle East
“The era of Big Government is over!” I could not get President Bill Clinton’s famous declaration out of my...
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Benazir Bhutto: Killed by the Real Pakistan
A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden. Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan,...
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The Kenyan Tragedy and the Future of Democracy in Africa
If, outside the atypical case of South Africa, any country in Africa was viewed as an island of stability with a real shot at breaking free of the "development traps" which have ensnared the most...
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Advise, Don’t Consent
President Obama is writing to the wrong people, and those wrong people are hopelessly confused about his power and their own. This is how bad agreements are born. Senate Republicans coul...
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The Struggle for Iran
Supreme leader Ali Khamenei had a good day on February 11. If the pro-democracy Green movement had managed to send hundreds of thousands of demonstrators once again onto Tehran's streets, hi...
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The Originalist Error
Authored by Alykhan Velshi "There is no such thing as man in the world. During my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; I know, too, thanks to Montesqu...
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Traitors Will be Prosecuted
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Just as a muscle will atrophy if unused, criminal prohibitions may lapse into desuetude when no one enforces them. Fortunately, and to its everlasting...
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Stephen Breyer, the Court’s Necromancer
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Originalism is the house judicial philosophy of conservatism. It maintains that the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning, that this meaning i...
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Sanctimony and Silence
For all the bluster, mum’s the word on the main question as the ports debacle ends.
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Constitution Confustion
President George W. Bush is the latest in a long line of American Caesars who have shredded the foundations of the Republic in an often racist and always imperialistic lust for territory, treasur...