It was wicked for Putin to interfere in our election to help elect Trump—but election meddling isn’t always a bad thing.
Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at the New York University Marron Institute.
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Is Roy Moore Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
This isn’t the ‘he-said, she-said’ case that Moore has made it out to be.
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How the Rich Rig Regulations
A new book exposes the pernicious regulations that make the rich richer and the poor poorer—while shrinking the total economic pie.
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In Memoriam: Thomas C. Schelling
On Tuesday I spoke at the University of Maryland memorial service for my teacher and friend Tom Schelling, who died last year at the age of 95. The photo above was on the dais. I didn’t speak from a text, but this is something like what I said: […]
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Is the Trump Administration Set to Crack Down on Cannabis Sales?
Sean Spicer alluded to major changes in drug policies, but the status quo is going nowhere. Here’s how we can do better.
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House Ethics Oversight: What Just Happened?
1. The House Republican conference, in secret, voted overwhelmingly to dismantle ethics oversight so Members could more easily get away with corruption. 2. Bob Goodlatte and his accomplices knew this attempt was shameful; otherwise they wouldn’t have tried to do it with surprise and stealth. 3. The House GOP leadership claimed to be against it but was […]
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Why Donald Trump is Not a Traitor
John Shattuck, who as a lawyer ought to know better, says that Donald Trump’s actions with respect to Russia “raise the specter of treason.” Now, I bow to no man in my hatred and contempt for Orange Julius Caesar, and I fully support Shattuck’s demand for an investigation of foreign interference and other misconduct in the […]
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Experimental Findings on HOPE Probation System
In light of the impressive success of the Hawaii HOPE program, which brought attention to the application of Swift-Certain-Fair (SCF) principles in community corrections, and the spread of such programs nationally, the Bureau of Justice Assistance authorized a large-scale, four-site field trial (the Demonstration Field Experiment, or DFE) to examine how well such a program would do in […]
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When the Government Makes a Promise, It Must Keep Its Word
During my misspent youth at the U.S. Department of Justice, there was a fashion for law enforcement “stings.” Someone in the United States Marshals Service came up with the clever idea of (if memory serves) sending letters purporting to come from the New York Giants, offering free tickets to Giants games, to the last known addresses […]
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Yes, Donald Trump Wants You To Know He Thinks You’re Too Stupid to Live
For some voters, there’s seemingly no limit to what he can get away with.
