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America's First Civil War

Alan Taylor’s new history poses the revolution as a battle inside America as well as for its liberty.

What White Catholics Owe Black Americans

We were among the greatest beneficiaries of the American dream. It’s time to acknowledge that our dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

Matthew J. Cressler

Two out of three ain’t bad

The Mundell-Fleming trilemma:

A fixed exchange rate, monetary autonomy and the free flow of capital are incompatible, according to the last in our series of big economic ideas

The Economist

06 September 2016

There's a simple fix for Obamacare's current woes: the public option

Jacob Hacker


If we've learned anything from the news of Aetna's retaliatory withdrawal from the healthcare markets, it's that allowing these firms to remain in business in 2010 was a huge mistake.