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Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

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I Know I Said Israel's Government Was Blind to Reality, But This Is Ridiculous!

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John Marshall Wields Art. I §10: Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819)

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Effendi

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Scott Horton celebrates William Wilberforce: Today the cause of universal human rights celebrates an important anniversary. On this day two hundred years ago, the Parliament at Westminster voted an act for the abolition of the slave trade. A few decades l

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Babel's Dawn: About 75,000 years ago the Homo genus reached its greatest crisis. The erectus species in Asia went extinct, the sapiens in Africa went through a bottleneck in which only a few thousand managed to survive, and the neanderthalensis branch in

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Joshua Micah Marshall: There's a really biting irony here, which is that this really is how you run a successful counterinsurgency, albeit with many more troops than we have available or in theater. And, in a modified form, it's also how you prevent an in

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Ezra Klein: "Steven Greenhouse has a very peculiarly written story (why isn't the bill named or described till halfway through?) on the coming clash over the Employee Free Choice Act. For now, implementation of the act looks basically impossible, as Democ

Steven Greenhouse has a very peculiarly written story (why isn't the bill named or described till halfway through?) on the coming clash over the Employee Free Choice Act. For now, implementation of the act looks basically impossible, as Democrats can't br

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Jim Hamilton finds that--as a San Diego County taxpayer--he was an unwilling investor in Amaranth

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Brad Setser: I continue to be surprised by how comfortable so many in the private markets seem to be with a financial world -- at least an international financial world -- increasingly dominated by governments, not the autonomous action of private agents.

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Mark H: "Below is a movie of [Violet] unscrewing the cap from a glass jar to get at the crab we placed inside. How smart are octopi? We taught her this trick in about an hour. First you place an empty glass jar in her tank. Because they are so curious she

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Henry Farrell's Academic Blogs Wiki

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Matthew Yglesias sorta praises Peter Beinart, and sorta doesn't: "I don't think Beinart's idea works. It treats the issue here as fundamentally epistemic -- we need a way to check whether or not some invasion scheme is a good one. I think the issue here i

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Impeach Richard Cheney. Impeach him now: Cheney: ‘There Does Not Appear To Be A Consensus’ That Global Warming Is ‘Caused By Man’

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Greg Sargent: A Care Package For The Media: Ten Examples Of Lieberman Vowing To Stay With Dem

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New York Times Link Generator (presented by reddit)

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