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April 4, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
No Labels Pulls Out of 2024 Election for the Funniest Reason Ever
No Labels? More like No Candidates!
April 26, 2017
Colin Dickey
Why the United States Government Embraced the Occult
A new book chronicles decades of extravagant attempts to weaponize psychic powers.
August 28, 2015
The New Republic Staff
The Flooding of America
August 14, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why Social Security Is a Success, in Four Charts
Happy birthday to America's biggest and best welfare program
February 20, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Rudy Giuliani's Big Government of the Soul
September 4, 2014
Franklin Foer
The Greatest Threat to Our Liberty Is Local Governments Run Amok
And only a strong federal government can stop them
November 24, 2013
Franklin Foer
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
November 15, 2013
John B. Judis
If You Believe in Government, You Should Be Furious About Obamacare's Incompetent Rollout
A fiasco that could haunt progressives for years to come
October 18, 2013
Reid Cherlin
The Best Part About the Shutdown Ending: Our National Parks’ Instagram Feed Is Back
August 19, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Maybe the Sequester Wasn't So Overstated After All
June 25, 2013
Ramesh Ponnuru, David Beckworth
No Time to Taper
The Federal Reserve needs to loosen its grip
June 21, 2013
Ryan Kearney
Americans Are Spending All of Their Time Sleeping
June 19, 2006
Franklin Foer
How Governments Nurture Soccer
Want to predict this year’s World Cup winner? Here’s the secret.
March 27, 1989
Henry Fairlie
A Modest Proposal (To Mandate That All Politician Be Eunuchs)
A satire for the ages

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