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The Information Sage
One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with a few members...
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Last August, on a blazing-hot Nebraska evening, I sat in a cool hotel bar in downtown Omaha and listened as a team of Dockers-clad union organizers joked, drank, and argued their way into an alliance...
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The Fallacy of Union Busting
If you are an informed, fair-minded person, chances are you feel at least conflicted about all the hard-knuckle attacks on public employee unions in Madison, Wisconsin, and other state capitols. While...
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Clean, Cheap, and Out of Control
A few years ago, land agents representing natural gas companies began knocking on doors throughout Pennsylvania and upstate New York offering residents vast sums for the right to drill on their land....
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Bangkok on the Nile
For more than two decades, Chamlong Srimuang has stood out on a Thai political scene dominated by interchangeable local bosses wearing interchangeable black suits. Now in his seventies, the former...
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Misreading the New York Times
American newspapers began dying years ago, not because of the sins of journalists but because of seismic shifts in reader demographics, technology, and patterns of ownership that all but displaced the...
View ArticleNo Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Serving Country and Community:Who Benefits from National Service? by Peter Frumkin and JoAnn Jastrzab Harvard University Press, 320 pp. The American Way to Change:How National Service andVolunteers...
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Tiller’s Killer
The late Dr. George Tiller was remarkable for his willingness to be one of a small and declining group of abortion providers who performed late-term abortions under the “health of the mother”...
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Remembering Jonathan Rowe
On Sunday, March 20th, my friend and mentor Jonathan Rowe, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, died, swiftly and unexpectedly, of a sudden infection. The shock of this news has not worn...
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Arab Springboard
The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Marc Lynch Public Affairs, 288 pp. Four years ago, during the last spring before the global economy collapsed, I attended a...
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