When Too Much Remains the Same: Women’s progress in America has farther to go
BY ELIZABETH A. KISLIK In a lecture at Harvard University in mid-October, New York Times columnist Gail Collins discussed how
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Long-Winded Texans: Wendy Davis vs. Ted Cruz
BY ADRIENNE MURPHY Anyone who follows recent political news knows that Texans like to talk. First, there was the stylish,
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The 25th Amendment & Dick Cheney’s Heart
BY TOMMY TOBIN Whatever you think about former Vice President Dick Cheney, his upcoming book Heart provides new fodder for
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Parsing the Foreign Policy Experts: Five Tips for Separating the Wonks from the Wannabes
BY JONATHAN HILLMAN Would you ask an ophthalmologist to remove your gall bladder? Would you pay a traffic cop for
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Is It Becoming Harder to Vote? A Closer Look at Voting Rights In the South Over 50 Years
BY SARAH ALLIN The nation’s political system was designed as a counterweight to economic inequality, but what happens when inequality
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Who is Medicaid Missing? What I learned in “Introduction to U.S. Health Care Policy” shocked me
BY KARLY SCHLEDWITZ With a historic overhaul of our health care system underway, I felt like a good public policy
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Will the Supreme Court Abolish Common Sense Limits on Campaign Spending?
BY PATRICK KIBBE Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for a case that could be worse for the
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