SHORT TAKES Nathan Pippenger Getting On with It iN POLiTiCS, THE PERFECT iS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD Politics, the saying goes, is the art of the possible; yet this hard-earned bit of wisdom is too...
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BOOKS Nathan Pippenger A Long Way from Athens On Politics A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present Alan Ryan Liveright, $75, 1,152 pp. Who would undertake to write a...
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Nathan Pippenger Common Ground? closing the immigration divide It was unthinkable, only three short months ago, that Washington’s long-estranged lawmakers would suddenly find themselves...
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SHORT TAKE Nathan Pippenger Four More Years WHAT CAN OBAMA DO WITH THEM? The cheering supporters at his victory rally may still be hoarse, and his inauguration is three frosty months away. But...
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Nathan Pippenger Snowe Job A Centrist Third party won’t help Shortly after announcing in February that she would not seek reelection, Maine’s Republican Senator Olympia Snowe took to the...
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Party Crashers Nathan Pippenger what the primary debates tell us about today’s Gop You have to hand it to the Republicans: They’ve found a way to make primary debates interesting. Credit for this...
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SHORT TAKE Nathan Pippenger Commander-in-Chief of Nuance BUSH HAD A DOCTRINE; OBAMA HAS A METHOD Of George W. Bush's many obtuse utterances, few were more revealing than one he made to Scott...
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SHORT TAKES Nathan Pippenger To the Bone WHAT BUDGET CUTS CAN TELL US In Feburary, the Center for American Progress, an influential liberal think tank, posted a drab two-column chart on its Web...
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