January 2012

  • Why There Are Pirates in Somalia

    Reading Time: ~3 minutes In 1991, a memo was written. It was signed by Larry Summers, who would eventually go on to become the director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration, where he would mostly ignore Obama’s direct orders to reform banks. At the time of the memo, he was the Chief…

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  • The 3 Reasons All Young Adults Are Liberal

    Reading Time: ~20 minutes Last month, I wrote a fairly innocuous piece on my Open Salon blog. To say the least, I was surprised by the waterfall-velocity at which comments flooded the article. At first, I was determined to respond to all of them, but soon gave up. What was the point of responding to a comment…

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