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10/27/2016

Can Electoral Reform Save America?

As Maine goes, so goes the nation (if we’re lucky).

by Michael Lind

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09/30/2016

What Politics Is(n’t)

In defense of what politics is and is not.

by Michael Lind

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07/08/2016

Our Greatest Enemy: Optimism

Why optimistic groupthink is a threat to humanity

by Michael Lind

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06/10/2016

Against Anti-Politics

Technocracy and populism are dead ends.

by Michael Lind

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04/07/2016

The Wave of the Future

Realizing political principles in an ever-changing world

by Michael Lind

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03/30/2016

Dead Philosopher Walking

Capital punishment from Athens to today

by Robert Zaller

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08/22/2012

Process Over Politics

Political role in television

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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03/23/2011

Revolutionary Roads

The striking similarities between regions separated by time and space.

by Jessa Crispin

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12/09/2010

Many Happy Returns

The complexity of the "return."

by Greg Beato

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12/06/2010

Leak Soup

WikiLeaks.

by Morgan Meis

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