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  • Democracy Unbalanced

    Posted on February 10, 2015

    (This originally appeared in The Hill) Where is Robert Byrd, now that the Senate really needs him? The former long-serving senator from West Virginia was a stickler for congressional prerogatives....

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  • The Limits of Direct Democracy

    Posted on November 6, 2014

    I couldn’t do it. Despite talking a big game about being for pot legalization, when I had the chance to vote for the policy, I voted no. It didn’t matter.  ...

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  • Rising to the Challenge?

    Posted on April 30, 2010

    In 1893, Chicago hosted the World’s Fair, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in America.  Designed by Daniel Burnham, the man who said, “Make no little plans,...

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  • The Iraq Elections

    Posted on March 8, 2010

    It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant. I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in...

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