Jackie Robinson, Republican

Jackie Robinson, Republican April 12, 2013

Understanding why Jackie Robinson was a Republican isn’t complicated.

Hope Versus History Following A Strongman’s Death

March 12, 2013

We can hope for democratic and economic reform in Venezuela after Chavez’s death, but history gives us little reason to expect it.

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Lincoln And Morsi

November 28, 2012

Does Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi see himself as a modern-day Lincoln?

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Yes You Are

September 7, 2012

Democrats are taking a risk by telling voters who think they are not better off than four years ago that they’re wrong.

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Package Deal

July 18, 2012

Getting married usually brings much more than a spouse. In my case, it brought an aunt who beat the odds time and again.

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Exit Routes For Despots

August 24, 2011

Counting the ways to overthrow a dictator.

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Japan’s Three Existential Crises

March 14, 2011

Only one event in our country’s 222-year history — the Civil War — threatened to tear the United States apart, or to change it beyond recognition. Japan now faces its third existential crisis in the space of 160 years. A society that has long defended its ethnic homogeneity and political independence could soon confront a stark choice: Accept outside manpower, money and influence to a far greater degree than ever …

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Our Ever-Changing Permanent Tax Rates

December 3, 2010

Every news outlet in the country says the big battle in the lame-duck Congress is over whether, and for whom, to permanently extend the Bush-era tax rates. This requires us to ask: What exactly is a “permanent” tax rate? A history compiled by the Tax Foundation shows that we have had 26 top rates for married couples since the modern income tax was enacted in 1913. On average, a “permanent” …

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