Month: June 2014

A Divided Future in the Middle East

I agree with Noz that dividing Iraq in three would not stop the fighting and would cause at least as many problems as it could solve, at least in the short term. However, this is no longer about just Iraq. It’s about a...

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How Can McAuliffe Expand Medicaid?

Yeah, I really don’t understand how Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe thinks he can just blow off the General Assembly and unilaterally accept the Medicaid expansion his state is entitled to under the Affordable Care Act....

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Purdy’s Got it Wrong on the Supreme Court

I understand where Jedediah Purdy is coming from when he criticizes the Supreme Court as an anti-democratic institution, but I think Purdy is wrong about his most important point. If there is one strength to the Court it is...

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The First Transgender President

When you make a list of all the ways President Obama has been helpful to transgender people, it begins to look kind of impressive: President Barack Obama, who established his bona fides as a gay and lesbian rights champion when...

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