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Kill All the Lawyers Entrepreneurs

On the heels of a severe recession, with stubbornly high unemployment and a still-sputtering recovery, economists and policy-makers are casting around for something — anything…

Crapshoot

Where is it most painful to be a highly visible incumbent politician at this particular moment in U.S. history? Perhaps it’s California, where current economic and…

Labour’s Last Stand?

Things look grim for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Heading into tonight’s third and final debate, his Labour Party trails not only the Conservatives, but…

Postcard from Stockholm: Energy, Security and Social Democracy

For the last three days, I’ve been running around Stockholm giving what seems to be 27 lectures on energy security and/or President Obama’s foreign policy. I’ve…

Cape Wind a Win for the Clean Energy Economy

In recent months, we at PPI have been doing our level best to call the nation’s attention to a bright green section of the map…

Clinton Talks Deficits and Debt at Fiscal Summit

Politicians, especially at the national level, have little credibility on matters of fiscal discipline. Bill Clinton is an exception. As president, Clinton inherited fast-rising budget…

Health Care Lies Are Powerful

One of the most unnerving aspects of the recent health reform debate was the extent to which opponents of various Democratic plans (usually lumped together…

Confronting Iran: The Case for Targeted Sanctions

The following is a guest column from Pirooz Hamvatan, a pseudonym for a Washington, D.C.-based analyst focusing on Iranian domestic and security issues, and Ali…

The Bennett “Purge” Succeeding

This won’t come as a big shock to those who have been watching events in Utah, but a new survey of delegates to that state’s Republican…

The New Prop 187?

It’s increasingly clear that Arizona’s new immigration law, signed by Republican governor Jan Brewer last Friday, is going to be a galvinizing force in national, not…