Month: January 2016

How America Gets Assimilation (Mostly) Right

June Shih, a former Clinton administration speechwriter and senior advisor at the State Department, has a great review in our January/February issue of the magazine. As a second generation immigrant from Taiwan who grew up in...

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Political Prognostications for 2016.

I’ve long held the somewhat controversial view that political analysis is only as good as its ability to make verifiable or falsifiable predictions about the future course of events and thus have tended to be impatient...

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Will Congress Try to Combat Opioid Epidemic?

I have to travel down to DC in a minute, so I don’t have time to editorialize about this. Just wanted to note it, because it’s important. Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are doubling down on...

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It’s Time for the Election to Heat Up

A year from today, we’ll be swearing in a new president. Will it be a guy who calls himself a Democratic Socialist? The answer is, not if a lot of Democrats have anything to say about it. Said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO):...

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That’s Not How Elections Work

The FiveThirtyEight deep-dive into the delegate math of the Republican nomination is useful but also just bizarre. The first thing they do is assume that Rubio will emerge as the savior the Establishment rallies around to stop...

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