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With every calendar reform, the runt month gets left out. Until now.
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Limit Pay, Not Unions
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We should work to modernize government’s relationship with unions — and union leaders should be farsighted enough to cooperate.
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Much Talking, Little Listening
By JAMIE MALANOWSKI
With Lincoln about to take office, Congress races through a rash of proposals and debate continues in Virginia's Secession Convention.
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How Species Save Our Lives
By RICHARD CONNIFF
The flourishing and study of species has been crucial to the survival of humankind. How can we keep them from disappearing?
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No Exit From a Bad Program
President Obama promised to change immigration laws. The Secure Communities program goes against that vow.
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Transplants and Rationing
With kidneys scarce, a proposal to change the first-come-first-served transplant system makes good sense.
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The Anthropocene
There is serious talk among scientists that a new geologic era has begun, called the Anthropocene.
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How the Arabs Turned Shame Into Liberty
By FOUAD AJAMI
To topple the tyrants, societies had to stop enabling them.
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What We Learned in the Statehouse
By BILL RITTER Jr., MARK SANFORD, BILL RICHARDSON and PHIL BREDESEN
Four departing governors single out key difficulties facing the states.
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Treat the Patient, Not the CT Scan
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Medical technology often blinds doctors to the needs of the sick.
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'There Must Be Blood-Letting!'
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More and more northerners rejected compromise and armed themselves for war.
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So who are David and Charles Koch, steeped in wealth and power, visionaries to some, widely feared by others?
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Learning From Buchanan
By JEAN H. BAKER
Why was James Buchanan such an awful president?
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