United States

Magazine articles on politics and society in the United States.

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Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Alex J. Pollock	Live Long, Work Long Working years have been shrinking, and retirement years expanding. How can we address the social, demographic, financial and political aspects of a growing percentage of the population that is living longer and expecting an income while no longer being productively employed?
Reason October 2006 John Stossel	How to Fire an Incompetent Teacher An illustrated guide to New York's public school bureaucracy, a monopoly so heavily regulated that sometimes it's unable to fire even dangerous teachers.
Reason October 2006 Walker & Gillespie	The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks.
Reason October 2006 David Weigel	It Can't Happen Here The fantasy worlds of War on Terror novels: If these are the first drips in a flood of wartime fantasies, we can count on many more years of paranoia. We should hope instead that these books become something the authors never intended: classic War on Terror kitsch.
Smithsonian October 2006 Joel Garreau	300 Million and Counting The United States reaches a demographic milestone, with an anticipated population of 300 million -- behind only that of China and India -- thanks largely to immigration.
Managed Care September 2006	We Can't Avoid Tough Decisions Forever Former Reagan administration official Jeanne Scott is working to change how health information is processed. However, that's only part of the solution.
Managed Care September 2006 John Carroll	Revolution in Massachusetts May Spread to Other States Governors and legislators look to borrow whatever health policies they think might work well for their own constituencies.
Searcher October 2006 Laura Gordon-Murnan	Politics and Tech Tools - Blogs, Aggregators, and Tracking Tools Dynamic, exciting, and wide open political blogging is playing an active role and has an aggressive voice in shaping political discourse.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Roy Mark	Telecoms Refuse to Endorse Pretexting Bill Wireless carriers today said pretexting for telephone records should be criminalized, but were silent when it came to backing a bill imposing additional requirements on carriers to protect consumer records.
BusinessWeek October 9, 2006 Maria Bartiromo	Inside The HP Case A conversation with Viet Dinh, who represents Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist and former Hewlett-Packard director who ignited the scandal.
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