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Obamacare\'s Phony Success Story: After year one, the health care overhaul is riddled with problems (22); Obamacare by the Numbers: A state-by-state analysis of failed health care exchanges (28); Selling Obamacare: The weird misleading propaganda behind the federal health care law (34); Putin\'s New Old Russia: Moscow returns to authoritarianism at home and aggression abroad (40); Gold and Gods in Modern India: The curious religiosity of India\'s nouveau riche (50)
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Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
WE ALL GET A SAY—NOT JUST PRIESTS, PRINCES, OR PARTISANS.
Why Didn't COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?
WE CAN THANK JUDGES WHO WERE PREPARED TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON PUBLIC HEALTH POWERS.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO SUE A BAD COP?
“REDRESS FOR A FEDERAL OFFICER’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS IS EITHER EXTREMELY LIMITED OR WHOLLY NONEXISTENT.”
MEET THE NEW YORK TIMES' LIBERTARIAN PODCASTER
Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything
HOW MANY UNION MEMBERS DOES IT TAKE TO OPERATE A TRAIN?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.
POST APOCALYPSE
NEITHER RAIN NOR SLEET NOR SNOW WILL STOP THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. BUT A PANDEMIC ON TOP OF A POLITICAL FIASCO? THAT’S A FIRST-CLASS PROBLEM.
HOW MASS IMMIGRATION STOPPED AMERICAN SOCIALISM
RELATIVELY OPEN BORDERS HELPED HALT THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY WELFARE STATE.
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
THE U.S. NATIONAL debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
Autonomous Mexico
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
