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Note to Assignment Editor: Not Your Dad's National Security Establishment

Heather Hurlburt | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: National Security, Barack Obama, Women in Politics, Politico, National Journal, Foreign Policy, Media News
Heather Hurlburt

If you care about the people of the United States being engaged in our foreign policy, then you need to care what the faces of the people who represent our foreign policy look like.

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Cap-and-Trade Versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy

Robert Stavins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

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Robert Stavins

One of the key merits of the cap-and-trade approach is that the program can provide cost-effectiveness, while achieving meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions levels.

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Green Shoots, Urban Policy Edition

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Harry Moroz

Though this is less robust a beginning than urban policy advocates might have liked, Obama will address the Urban and Metropolitan Policy Roundtable, which demonstrates his continued commitment to cities.

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The Republican Party is a Mess

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

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Michael Fauntroy

The GOP is simply out of touch with the rest of the country and has a very long way to go to regain relevance in American politics.

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National Journal Details GOP's "Southern Exposure" Problem

National Journal | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

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Republican strength in the South has both compensated for and masked the extent of the party's decline elsewhere....

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This Week in Magazines: A Remarkably Resilient Progressive Turns 100, Eliot Spitzer Gropes to Turn a Corner

James Warren | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media

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James Warren

Newsweek has the most vivid rollout so far of Spitzer's obvious image rehab -- he goes jogging around Central Park with a reporter as his shame and ego continue their internal battle.

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A Bipartisan Road to Health Care Reform?

Eileen McMenamin | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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Eileen McMenamin

The President is right to signal we need to spend money on health care. We can't afford not to do it. The most expensive thing is to do is to just sit and do nothing at all.

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Change Congress -- We're Bringing Sexy Back

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Lawrence Lessig

Change Congress is bringing sexy back... to the campaign finance reform debate. The donor strike will make sure politicians are well aware of how much money they're losing if they oppose reform.

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Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.

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The Media's Liberal Reverse Bias

J. L. Ballinger | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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J. L. Ballinger

Obama could pick almost anybody for his cabinet and it would represent something new from the current lame ducks.

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This Week in Magazines: Tone Deaf Republicans, Rock Stars, and Subprime Wolves

James Warren | Posted 12.24.2008 | Media

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James Warren

It's unclear whether the GOP will convince itself that its panacea is a plug-in hybrid of a politician, and here's a question to jumpstart a boring dinner party: why don't we take perfumes seriously?

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This Week in Magazines: What's at Stake in the Election, Atlantic's Redesign and The New Yorker's Brainiacs

James Warren | Posted 12.03.2008 | Media

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James Warren

What's really at stake in Tuesday's election? Many usual suspects are opining in the cable universe, so for a cerebral alternative there's "A Fateful Election" in the Nov. 6 New York Review of Books.

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How Barack Obama Can Frame His "Liberal" Label

Stephen Ducat | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Stephen Ducat

Obama needs to hew to what has been a largely successful strategy of branding himself as the candidate who transcends labels and shrink-wrapped ideologies.

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Jason Linkins

Flawed Study Ranks Obama As "Most Liberal"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, National Journal, Politics News

What does it all mean? Not much more than the National Journal finding "liberals" to be scary! The whole endeavor is a twisted skein of fuzzy math and ever shifting standards.

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