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Magazine articles on politics and society in the United States.

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Reason December 2005 Cathy Young	No, This Is the Story of the Hurricane For too many pundits, left and right, Katrina was just another front in the culture war.
Wired December 2005 Evan Ratliff	Fear, Inc. How homeland security became the biggest market opportunity since the dotcom boom.
Wired December 2005 Gary Wolf	Reinventing 911 How a swarm of networked citizens is building a better emergency broadcast system.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Vonage Markets on Despite FCC E911 Order Vonage plans to continue offering service to new customers despite failing to meet the Federal Communications Commission's mandate to provide full E911 by Nov. 28 or cease marketing Voice over IP.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Mitchell J. Thompson	Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Bradley L. Bowman	Realism and Idealism: US Policy toward Saudi Arabia, from the Cold War to Today Before analyzing US policy toward Saudi Arabia during the Cold War and developing a strategy for the future, it is important to gain a better understanding of realist interests and idealist values.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Francis V. Crupi	Why the United States Should Robustly Support Pan-African Organizations This article presents a rationale for why it should be the policy of the United States to robustly support pan-African sub-regional organizations that seek to have Africans help themselves.
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Spencer E. Ante	A Digital Dodge City The high-stakes battle between Verizon and Cablevision over a town on Long Island.
Reason December 2005 Matt Welch	They Shoot Helicopters, Don't They? How journalists spread rumors during Katrina: Reporters failed to exercise enough skepticism in passing along secondhand testimony from victims (who often just parroted what they picked up from the rumor mill), and they were far too eager to broadcast as fact apocalyptic statements from government officials.
ifeminists November 23, 2005 Carey Roberts	Requiem for the Leftist Welfare Utopia Leftists have devised a simple yet amazingly effective formula to engender social discord: break up the family, marginalize fathers, and then blame the whole mess on men. But now people are catching on to the game plan and dads are staging a comeback.
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