Ideas

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Peace Through Bungling

By its own efforts, despite the bungles and cowardice of its friends, Ukraine may have at least bought a chance for the freedom it is due.

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A Tragic Shooting in D.C.

After a gunman shot two National Guard soldiers near the White House, speculation swiftly outpaced the available facts.

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The Court Has an Easy Answer on the Fed

The Federal Reserve is best understood not as an administrative agency but as a federal corporation—and thus outside of Trump’s control over the executive branch.

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Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation

Having promised to lower living costs, the president seems keen to make American life more expensive.

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Welcome to the Gerrymandering Apocalypse

America is quickly moving toward a system in which tens of millions of blue-state Republicans and red-state Democrats effectively have no congressional representation at all.