Byron Hurlbut, Author at Harvard Political Review

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Can Democrats Win in the South?

Byron Hurlbut - March 15, 2018

On one remarkable night in December, red, white, and blue confetti rained down on supporters of Senator-elect Doug Jones. The Birmingham Sheraton Hotel was...

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Why Domestic Terror Must Be Criminalized

Byron Hurlbut - February 6, 2018

On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his Dodge Charger into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. One woman was...

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Why Congress Can’t Help Caltrain

Byron Hurlbut - January 2, 2018

Silicon Valley has long been heralded as the world’s center of innovation. Yet every day, when some of the country’s smartest engineers commute to...

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Pension Reform: The Fiscal Crisis No One Wants to Talk About

Byron Hurlbut - November 26, 2017

America is facing a fiscal crisis and no one is talking about it. Pension reform has snuck under the public’s radar, even though it...