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Fracking

Frack to the Future

Can small-town North Dakota survive an oil boom?

BY MICHAEL WARREN

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

Truman with Mossadeq in 1951

The Myth of an American Coup

What really happened in Iran in 1953

BY RAY TAKEYH

June 17, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 38

ELEANOR BENTALL

Rise of a Free School

Toby Young’s astonishing second career as an education reformer

BY SAM SCHULMAN

June 17, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 38

Equal Justice Under Law?

The Case Against Deference

Judges should be unafraid to review government actions

BY DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. and ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Gary Locke

Obama’s Asteroid

The decline of NASA and the senseless priorities of our government

BY P.J. O'ROURKE

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

At the National Defense University, defining jihad down

See No Evil

President Obama may think that the threat from al Qaeda is receding. It isn’t.

BY THOMAS JOSCELYN

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Someday, they’ll all be hanging out in faculty lounges.

Progressives with Bombs

The whitewashing of the Weather Underground

BY PETER COLLIER

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

Thomas Fluharty

Beyond the Pale

At ‘white privilege’ conferences, a lengthening list of victims issue an ever-more-detailed indictment of Western civilization

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Thomas Perez

Thomas Perez Makes a Deal

How Obama’s Labor nominee made a Supreme Court case disappear

BY TERRY EASTLAND

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Gary Locke/BigStock/Landov/Newscom

Radioactive Regime

Iran and its apologists

BY REUEL MARC GERECHT

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

David Clark

The Fall of Rome

Bankrupt and bloodied, Italy’s political elite clings to power

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Carter and Reagan

The Talent Contest

What makes a political winner? Ideology and party platforms are overrated.

BY NOEMIE EMERY

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Afghan Local Policemen receive certificates

Special Operators at Work

Training the Afghan Local Police

BY WILLY STERN

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Steven Chorney

The Twidiocracy

The decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a time

BY MATT LABASH

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Union soldiers at Chancellorsville awaiting orders

A Masterpiece of War

The battle of Chancellorsville, 150 years on

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Gosnell

Barbarism in Philadelphia

The crimes of Kermit Gosnell

BY JON A. SHIELDS

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Anti-fracking protesters in New York, August 2012

The Fractured Left

Good news on natural gas is bad news for a Democratic party full of environmental true-believers

BY ROBERT H. NELSON

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Instagram, North Korea

Dateline Pyongyang

The AP's problematic North Korea bureau

BY ETHAN EPSTEIN

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Sam Fox in Belgium, 2008

Advise and Dissent

The recess appointment power: a slow-motion train wreck

BY JEFF BERGNER

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Morris Dees

King of Fearmongers

Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

An irritated Woods and his club part ways in May 2007.

Can You Forgive Him?

Next stop, Augusta, on the Tiger Woods rehabilitation tour

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

A loud reminder in Dublin, July 2011

Irish Stew

Where abortion and national identity collide

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

With fellow freshmen outside the White House, July 2011

Tea Party Insider

Rep. Steve Southerland and the GOP class of 2010 make peace with the House leadership, and vice versa

BY JONATHAN STRONG

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Prayer

Among the Evangélicos

For Republicans reaching out to immigrant groups, a glimmer of hope: Protestant Hispanics are genuine swing voters.

BY MICHAEL WARREN

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

C.F. Payne

The Heretic

Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

YPG fighters in Sere Kaniyah

The Kurds Are for the Kurds

Syria’s other combatants

BY JONATHAN SPYER

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

Elephant double Bind

The Double Bind

What stands in the way of a Republican revival? Republicans.

BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

Gov. Jerry Brown & Californians

Paradise Lost

California is not too big to fail.

BY K.E. GRUBBS JR. and SHAWN STEEL

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

How to Prevent Atrocities

How to Prevent Atrocities

There’s no substitute for presidential leadership

BY TOD LINDBERG

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

A gun.

The American Way with Guns

Our national story is firearms all the way down

BY GEOFFREY NORMAN

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

In Erbil, it is indeed.

The Other Iraq

Kurdistan prospers, even as pressure from Baghdad grows

BY DAVID DEVOSS

March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24

President Obama and Eric Holder

Politicizing Justice

Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda begins and ends with delivering favors to Obama’s constituencies

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

February 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23

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