Alex Copulsky, Author at Harvard Political Review

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A Random Observation and Question

Alex Copulsky - March 11, 2009

Free-market economics has an impressive intellectual grounding and makes a lot of sense. It also happens to say that the people who hold all...

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China's Problems are Our Problems

Alex Copulsky - March 10, 2009

Apparently China is worried about the coming year being a period of "mass incidents". This is in part because it is the anniversary of...

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Are Congressional Democrats Cracking Up?

Alex Copulsky - March 8, 2009

I don't know how many of you saw this interesting article in Politico yesterday about Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. For those who didn't,...

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Wrong Argument

Alex Copulsky - March 7, 2009

If Sam really wants to bleed the rich, he's absolutely fighting the wrong fight. He couches his argument in empirical terms, while everyone knows...

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2010's Possibilities

Alex Copulsky - March 6, 2009

Paradoxically, the more seats the Democrats lose in the House, the more likely it is to shift the agenda to the left. The current...

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GM: A Case Study for Single-Payer Healthcare

Alex Copulsky - March 5, 2009

So auditors are now reporting that GM's long-term viability is, to put it charitably, a little bit doubtful. When this sort of language is...

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Obama's Note to Russia

Alex Copulsky - March 3, 2009

So I have not yet gotten around to Obama's alleged secret note to Russian President Medvedev. In it, he seems to propose a quid...

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Republican Crackup Watch

Alex Copulsky - March 2, 2009

Michael Steele yesterday said on the air that Rush Limbaugh's rhetoric was "incendiary" and "ugly", and reminded the audience that he, not Rush Limbaugh,...

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New Budget Time!

Alex Copulsky - February 27, 2009

Well, I don't know quite where to start. Maybe it'd be hyperbole to say that it's the most ambitious move for liberalism* in 40...

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Michael Steele Is An Idiot

Alex Copulsky - February 27, 2009

He just wanted to show some "slum love" to Bobby Jindal. Because he is the "slumdog millionaire governer". Because, you know, he's Indian. And...