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How Americans would benefit from cancellation of impoverished country debts.

In the aftermath of the third- and fourth-most devastating hurricanes in Atlantic basin history, people are beginning to talk about the connections between extreme weather events and global warming.

Costa Rica is making headlines for a dead-heat election.

President George W. Bush will not withdraw our forces until U.S. oil companies have secure access to Iraq’s resources.

If the budget represents, in Joseph Schumpeter’s phrase, “the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies” then the Bush administration’s current budget reflects the interests of those who would trample on the public-spirited vision of Puritan John Winthrop’s image of the “city on a hill.”

An apology to the Danes.

Many citizens look back over the 20th century and see the Supreme Court championing individual freedoms and standing in the way of government abuse of power. But this is not the case in many issues involving foreign policy, an issue raised when Samuel Alito was appointed to the Supreme Court. It’s Congress, not the courts, that needs to step up to exert its Constitutionally-mandated role of checking executive power.

Allowing immigrants to hold two passports can promote U.S. ideals and values.

It is customary early in the New Year to recommend good books to read. And the “Tao Te Ching” should be at the top of President Bush’s list. Careening from crisis to crisis with approval ratings drooping, the president should consider the opening lines of chapter 80. “If a country is governed wisely, its inhabitants will be content.”

Lost in the T-shirt battle is what really matters: President George W. Bush’s failure to tell the nation about the true costs of the war.