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7:30 AM, Jan 16, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

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11:44 AM, Dec 14, 2011 • By ZACK MUNSON

With still about a month until its American release, controversy is beginning to swirl around the new Harvey Weinstein produced Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady. That a Hollywood film about the life of one of the 20^th Century’s great conservatives might play fast and loose with the facts should certainly come as no surprise.

Isn’t that the morally decent thing to do?

Jul 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 41 • By ARTHUR C. BROOKS

The problem with socialists, according to Margaret Thatcher, is that “they always run out of other people’s money.” We haven’t hit that point just yet, but we have hit our nation’s legal credit limit of $14.3 trillion. To avoid defaulting on our loans, policymakers must raise that limit.

7:00 PM, Jun 14, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

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Jun 6, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 36 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the subsequent rapid American recovery at home and abroad, didn’t come out of the blue. There were plenty of signs before Election Day 1980 that such a reversal and triumph were possible:

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Mar 22, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 26 • By ANDREW STUTTAFORD

Robert Kagan and Aroop Mukharji on Colombian democracy.

2:40 PM, Mar 9, 2010 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

Robert Kagan and Aroop Mukharji write in today's Washington Post:

There is plenty of pessimism about democracy these days, and autocrats seem to be on the march on every continent. So we should take note when democracy triumphs over autocratic temptations.

That's what happened in Colombia recently. President Álvaro Uribe had hinted for some time that he might run for a third consecutive term, despite the constitution's two-term limit. Last summer Colombia's House and Senate, controlled by allies of Uribe, passed a bill to change the constitution. The next and final step was a popular referendum in May to endorse Uribe's reelection. If that sounds familiar, it should. It was by popular referendum that Venezuela's Hugo Chávez installed himself as a virtual president-for-life. But late last month Colombia's constitutional court rejected the bill. The referendum is dead, and Colombia's democracy lives.

Vanessa Neumann has more on Columbia in this week's issue.

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