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Criminal Justice Reform’s Shaky Coalition
With the United States at historic levels of political polarization, it’s shocking that a topic as ripe for controversy as criminal justice reform is currently enjoying a rare bipartisan moment. Nonetheless, the push for a smaller prison system, abolition of mandatory minimums, and fewer causes for arrest, has brought together a wide range of political…
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A Panacea for American Democracy
The concept I am about to introduce is not, as my alluring and sensationalist title may suggest, the single answer to repair our population’s system of electing people to represent us. However, it has the potential to make a huge difference in how campaigns are run, how elections unfold, and, ultimately, how many Americans support…
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Diluting the Heavens
I think of primordial human. In the day, she worked and sweated and at night, before he laid his head to rest, he looked at the stars and considered what lay above. I think of Galileo, who charted the sky and mapped its constellations. I think of the myths and legends, created by countless masses…
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The Concern with Energy Apathy
BY ALEXANDER BEAULIEU I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man, through the production of CO2 is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd. -Rick Santorum I think there…
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Revival and Reinvention in the Conservative Caucus
BY JIMMY LOOMIS An all-star lineup of prominent conservative political leaders and activists convened on September 28 at the St. Charles Convention Center to kick off the pinnacle of conservative ideological gatherings: the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). CPAC is an annual forum sponsored by the nation’s leading conservative political body, the American Conservative Union…
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Why Roberts Still Won
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Justice Kennedy was supposed to be “the decider”, according to the cover of this week’s Time. Not Roberts, not the conservative workhorse Republicans love and Democrats love to hate. Yet there it is; 59 pages in which Chief Justice Roberts upheld the most liberal social reform since the…
