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Fixing Congress

In politics as in life, you get what you pay for. In politics today, taxpayers are hiring mediocre talent, candidates who think their job is to duck the big policy issues in order to get elected and reelected.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper

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Small Changes, Big Results

That people respond to the relative costs and returns of schooling might imply that the poor are optimizing the amount of school they invest in, as predicted in a simple economic model. But evidence suggests that reality is more complex.

Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer

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Back to Full Employment

Employment conditions in the United States today remain disastrous—worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s.

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Can Technology End Poverty?

Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.

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Democracy After Citizens United

The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.

Lawrence Lessig

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Mothers Who Care Too Much

Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

Nancy J. Hirschmann

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Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

Relationships between academic institutions and biotechnology companies create conflicts of interest that undermine the goals of academic medicine and harm the public.

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The Rules

The market should deliver public benefits, and government can help ensure that the bounties of capitalism actually are shared for the good of wider society.

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Something from Nothing

Counterinsurgency doesn’t make sense. It asks soldiers, concerned primarily with survival, to be Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa.

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Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.

Andrew Gelman, John Sides

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Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

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The Case for Amnesty

The right of government to deport irregular migrants is not absolute. That right weakens as time passes and the migrants become members of society.

Joseph H. Carens

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