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Barack on the ball, and on the oil

This week's big environmental news, namely that President Obama has authorized major offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska, may not...

Do Democrats Need to Get Religion?

Raul Carrillo has a column in today's Crimson arguing that Democrats need to become better at the "politics of spirituality." Such exhortations often contain an...

How Obama Can Save the Environment (Among Other Things)

The Obama administration environmental agenda reemerged on Thursday with the announcement of additional restrictions on strip mining, new fuel efficiency standards for cars, and...

An Embarrassment to Harvard Conservatives

In case you aren't sick of the subject, I have written a full-length take-down of the recent Harvard Salient article on Ethnic Studies. It...

The Spring 2010 Issue of the HPR is out!

The Spring 2010 issue of the Harvard Political Review is available here in an online browseable pdf format. Most articles are also now available...

The White House Seder

Shocking new evidence that Obama is secretly a Muslim: he's hosting a Passover seder at the White House! Seriously though, this Times article about the...

Steven Levitt's Solution to Climate Change

Professor Steven D. Levitt, an eminent popular economist from the University of Chicago and co-author of the widely successful books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics gave...

From the Department of Pathetic Rhetoric

There was really no justification for the status quo ante in the federal student loan program.  The model was this: Students applied for a...

The Most Salienty Salient Article Ever

In the new Harvard Salient, Patrick T. Brennan has achieved the Platonic ideal of a Salient article: equal measures of pure arrogance, submerged racism,...