Your Brain on Unity
President Barack Obama took office promoting the need for the country in general—and policy-makers in particular—to overcome petty
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President Barack Obama took office promoting the need for the country in general—and policy-makers in particular—to overcome petty
April 14, 2005 -- As we rush to meet the April 15 deadline to file our tax returns, many fail to realize that those 1040 forms do more than just make us all personally poorer. The tax code is a principal instrument that creates and sustains the politicized, partisan, uncivil, contentious conflict society that so many bemoan.
January 4, 2007 -- Saddam Hussein is deservedly dead, hanged as the heinous criminal he was. But the process by which justice was
Unfortunately, every Earth Day, even politicians who are not generally known as tree-huggers feel they must pander to the degenerate values
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Whether one favors the war against Iraq or not, one's attitude towards the United Nations' role is a revealing Rorschach test; those with
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On September 11, the metaphor of the war of ideas between rational civilization and tribalist barbarism became literal description...
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Many Americans understandably are concerned about the Bush administration's proposed Terrorist Information Prevention System, a program to
As he departed for a tour of Africa, President George W. Bush said the United States rejects "the paternalist notion that treats African
October 16, 2001 -- As Congress prepares to pass a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more
October 18, 2001 -- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on October 10 to three economists whose work might have
October 18, 2001 -- “Manifest Destiny” is the term originally created by John L. O’Sullivan in the 1840s to describe America's westward...
June 12, 2002 -- In my Harvard University apartment, overlooking the serene Charles River, I grieve for the Israelis who were murdered last
April 3, 2001 -- Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately
Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....
George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..