Category: Politics

Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post
by Jeff Larson | Sep 10, 2013 | Legal Affairs, National SecurityCiting concerns about linking to classified material, Johns Hopkins University asked a professor this morning to remove a blog post discussing last week’s revelations about the NSA’s efforts to break encryption. The post had linked to government documents published by ProPublica, the Guardian, and the New York Times. Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins, which is short drive from the […]

Ignoring the Facts about Detroit
by Peter Lindstrom | Sep 9, 2013 | PoliticsPhoto: Detroit, 1942 via Wikipedia After the 1805 fire that left 600 Detroit residents homeless, territorial Judge Augustus Woodward announced he had copied the plans for the soon-to-be-built Washington, D.C., and he would use them to create an even greater city. That inspired Father Gabriel Richard to bless the plan with the Latin phrase Resuget […]

The Way Forward for Detroit? Land Taxes
by Polly Cleveland | Sep 9, 2013 | Economy(Source: sneurgaonkar/Flickr/Creative Commons) In 1995, we encountered a group of economic advisors to Governor John Engler of Michigan, intent on cutting property taxes. We reminded them of California’s 1979 Proposition 13. After Prop. 13 rolled back and froze property taxes, sales taxes reached crushing levels, budget crises became routine, local services collapsed, and public schools […]
Remember When People Had Pensions?
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 9, 2013 | EconomyHow’s your 401(k) doing? Working Americans ask themselves this question—and angst about the answer—an awfully lot these days. And why not? For most Americans, retirement has turned chillingly stark: Either you have a robust set of investments in your 401(k) or you’re facing a rocky retirement. This article was originally published in Too Much and […]

The Hill to the Rescue on Syria? Don’t Hold Your Breath
by Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 8, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Source: AP) Sometimes history happens at the moment when no one is looking. On weekends in late August, the president of the United States ought to be playing golf or loafing at Camp David, not making headlines. Yet Barack Obama chose Labor Day weekend to unveil arguably the most consequential foreign policy shift of his […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
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