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How an EPA cleanup project is damaging the river it seeks to save.

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Paul Krugman's Lonely Crusade

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The fact that Beida is taking this step is not particularly surprising given the political climate in the capital. What is a surprise is how the China Daily, the foreign-language mouthpiece of the Party, seems to be questioning the wisdom of such a litmus test in a university environment.

Another anecdotal data point that hints at dissension within the Party over core issues of governance.

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In what I think is one of the best pieces he has ever written for the Wall Stret Journal, Boalt Law professor Stanley Lubman obliquely raises a compelling specter: if the Party and the government do not compel local governments to start protecting consumer interests as a first priority, they are allowing a vacuum into which non-governmental forces could step.

This prospect scares the daylights out of the Party, because they believe that the emergence of popular non-governmental associations could form the nexus of a viable political opposition. One need look no further than Poland's Solidarity movement to understand their fear.

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The story of Bloomberg’s mayoralty is this: there is no there there."

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"A statement organized by the Religious Action Center of the Union of Reform Judaism that was signed by the rabbis of every Reform temple in the state, as well as some from other denominations, has declared that Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to end the entitlement nightmare that has brought Wisconsin close to bankruptcy is contrary to the Torah."

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"Labor has come a long way since then—a long way down. At the outset of the nineteen-sixties, one in four workers had the protection of a union. By the early eighties, after President Reagan destroyed the air-traffic controllers’ union, the proportion was down to one in five. Now it’s one in eight. In a workforce twice the size it was in Edward P. Morgan’s heyday, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s onetime fifteen million has shrunk to twelve million, with a couple of million more in unions unaffiliated with the federation. "

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"Whoever emerges as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 will very likely have to embrace climate-change denial."

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"Certainly, the bright lights of optimism that burned in Europe when the Iron Curtain came down twenty years ago were all too quickly extinguished. Hopes that the collapse of Soviet repression in the Eastern bloc and the removal of the threat of nuclear confrontation would usher in a new era of peace, unity and prosperity rapidly evaporated."

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"The rivalry between Beijing, the national capital, and Shanghai, the financial capital, has been going on for decades. The dynamic is a powerful undercurrent in Chinese politics and culture."

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What populism means for globalism

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The clash between Republicans and unions that caught fire in Wisconsin last week escalated Monday: Labor leaders planned to take their protests to dozens of other capitals and Democrats in a second state considered a walkout to stall bills that would limit union power.

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The mayor of Braddock rebuilds his city.

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Nye offers a precis of his Foreign Affairs essay from December 2010 as well as of his new book.

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What information technology can and cannot do

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Religion's Growing Influence in International Politics

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The new Frontier for International Law

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The Rise of the Security Services in Putin's Kremlin

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