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Alex Copulsky

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A New Day for Labor

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My Visit to the Tea Party

Today, I did something which went against the deepest instincts of my time at the Harvard Political Review: reporting.  I heard two days ago...

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...

Quick Thoughts on the Healthcare Summit

Watching live.  I think that the main audience here is nervous Congressional Democrats. Not in the sense that this will actually move public opinion;...

The Enthusiasm Gap

I think Glenn Greenwald is quite right about this.  The Democratic Party has spent the last few years more or less conspicuously failing to...

Silly Things Published in the NYT

I'm hardly an expert on modern warfare, but this New York Times op-ed is pretty clearly silly and deserving of refutation. Defense consultant Lara...

Israel and Americans

I'm not always wild about The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, but I think he has a very perceptive post about Israel's relationship with the United...

At Least We're Not Greece Yet

So today the European Union issued its long-awaited statement on whether or not it would bail out Greece.  The answer was a clear and...

The Dim Prospects for Meaningful Financial Reform

Well, the Senate just spent a year trying and failing to pass a moderate, compromised-to-hell health reform plan.  Which, incidentally, if that is comprehensive...

The Fierce Urgency of Whatever

In a culture that often values boldness above all else, American politics is surprisingly allergic to big ideas. Despite the clamor over President Obama's health-care reform plan, it is important to remember that it proposes fairly incremental changes.