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Domestic Terror: The Worry About Homegrown Plots
Why recent events point to a potentially worrying radicalization of disaffected American Muslims.
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Education Reform From the Union Point of View
What do teachers' unions think about being vilified by everyone from Newt Gingrich to Al Sharpton?
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College Students Hit by High-Interest Loans
College degrees are supposed to last a lifetime, but should tuition loan payments? How some schools got away with charging interest rates of up to 18 percent.
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Developing A Taste For China’s New Economy
What a meal of beef stomach and duck throats taught me about the new China.
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Why Women Reject the Mammogram Recommendations
Why many American women are resolutely rejecting the new mammogram recommendations, despite mixed reaction in the medical community.
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The Legal Fight Over God's Secular Title
The fight over God's secular title.
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Senate Likely to Thwart Stupak Amendment
Abortion-rights activists were not caught unaware on the anti-abortion-funding amendment to the House health-care bill, and they are likely to stop it in the Senate.
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Health Care: Abortion Is Not the Only Moral Issue
Our entire health-care system is filled with complex moral choices. We shouldn't make our health-care debate about just one.
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Khamenei Will Be Iran's Last Supreme Leader
The clerical establishment has become so sick of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that they will not replace him when he dies.
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Rudy Giuliani vs. the Federal Courts
Giuliani should know better than to impugn the capabilities of federal courts.
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U.S.-China Relationship Is Good for the World
Why the U.S.-China relationship is not only the fulcrum of the world economy, but a good thing after all.
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Small Business: Why Is Mary Kay Thriving in China?
Why the American brand Mary Kay is thriving in China.
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The Case Against Holds on Political Nominees
The obscure Senate procedure that is getting in the way of governance.
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Why Men Leave When Cancer Arrives
A new study shows that men are more likely to ditch their sick spouses.
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Obama's Man in China: Ambassador Jon Huntsman
Well before the Chinese welcomed Obama, his ambassador was showing them how an American politician works a crowd. And they love it.
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How Sarah Palin Hurts the GOP And the Country
Obama knows the long odds against a right-wing populist winning the presidency, no matter how good she looks in a skirt (or running clothes), brandishing a gun. He shouldn't be too cocky, however, because the death of the center is ultimately a problem for him and the whole country. If the Palinista …
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Sarah Palin's Political Instincts: Hitchens
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ernest Gruening: war veteran, former editor of magazine, and Franklin Roosevelt's nominee for governorship of the then-territory of Alaska in 1939. Having held that post for 14 years, he was elected to the United States Senate for the transition period of Alaskan sta …
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Zakaria: Can America Still Innovate?
Innovation is as American as baseball and apple pie. But some traditions can't be trademarked.
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Inside Livermore Lab's Race to Invent Clean Energy
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab are betting $3.5 billion in taxpayer money on a tiny pellet that could produce an endless supply of safe, clean energy. For some, that's hard to swallow.
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As Obama Arrives, China Suffers an Identity Crisis
On the eve of Obama's visit, China reveals an identity crisis.

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