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• America, Israel, Gaza, the World - The American Interest

  As Israeli airstrikes and naval shells bombarded Gaza this weekend, the world asked the question that perennially frustrates, confuses and enrages so many people across the planet: Why aren’t the Amer...

• Energy Revolution 2: A Post Post-American Post - The American Interest

  Forget peak oil; forget the Middle East. The energy revolution of the 21st century isn’t about solar energy or wind power and the “scramble for oil” isn’t going to drive global politics. The energy ab...

• Beyond Blue Part Four: Better Living in the 21st Century - The American Interest

  An inevitable question as we look at the demise of the 20th century economy is how shall we live? As the manufacturing that remains to us becomes more automated, reducing employment even as output cli...

• A President At Bay - The American Interest

  No president in my lifetime has fallen from heaven to earth as rapidly as President Obama.  Others have lost popularity and lost control of Congress, but none fell from such a height.  Who can forget ...

• New Models in Legal Research - The American Interest

  It turns out that computer-assisted review isn’t the only way new technologies are upending the legal profession. A recent article in Slate discusses how for the past few years a small organization ha...

• The End of the Zimmerman Trial - The American Interest

  Via Meadia hasn’t said much about the Zimmerman trial; that was by design. There’s nothing morally wrong with following every twist and turn of a court case, but in our book that is entertainment and ...