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Eric Schmidt Doesn’t Have a Grand Strategy for North Korea. He Just Likes Playing Diplomat.
Why is the Google chairman bothering with Kim Jong-un? Don't look for a profit motive.
Tony Kushner's Real Source For "Lincoln"?
The NFL Playoffs Offer Little Reward for All Their Risk
Can Chuck Hagel Cure the Military's Health Care Problem?
One of the military's biggest threats is from within: its soaring health care costs.
When It Comes to Worldview, Jack Lew is Obama in Coke-Bottle Glasses
Two years ago I was interviewing Tim Geithner when he started ticking off the ways he was poorly suited to being Treasury secretary late in Obama’s first term. Above all, he said, was the fact that the job was increasingly focused on questions of values and ideology—how the government should spend its scarce resources, who should get the shaft and who should pick up the tab—whereas Geithner saw himself as a financial technocrat. “A huge part of the economic challenge the president faces on this stuff is that it’s going to be at the center of the political debate,” he told me.
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Walmart Could Be the Key to Gun Control
America Can't Afford to Cut Its Discretionary Spending
At the heart of our fiscal challenge is a clash between the present and the future, and the future is losing. Intended or not, the top priorities for Republicans and Democrats add up to a relentless squeeze on discretionary spending. That means less for education, less for research, less for infrastructure—the vital public investments that have nourished innovation and growth throughout our history.
