Category: National Policy Analysis

Let it Be Our Legacy: Making America Safe with Missile Defense

National Policy Analysis #369 /
American civilians at home aren't protected. That's a key lesson we learned September 11. We spend billions on defense every year and our enemies still can come to our workplaces and kill us. Don't get me wrong. Other than a ...
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Is it Better to Have a Raise or a Job? How a Minimum Wage Hike Would Increase Unemployment, Harm Undertrained Workers

National Policy Analysis #370 /
Is it better to have a raise or a job? It's a no-brainer. A raise is worthless without a job. The federal government reported October 5 that 199,000 jobs were lost between mid-August and mid-September, reflecting a national unemployment rate ...
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Leading Institutions Support Groups Opposing a U.S. Military Response

National Policy Analysis #366 /
Terrorism is a tool of fanatics. It is a tool we need to break. A well-connected foreign policy institute is circulating among policymakers a petition urging the Bush Administration and Congress to do the opposite. The petition, by Foreign Policy ...
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These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain

National Policy Analysis #363 /
The 21st Century has begun. Centuries are measured in books by dates and minds by events. In the national memory, the terrorist war on the United States that began September 11, 2001 will mark the beginning of the 21st Century ...
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Lawsuit Against Atlanta Braves is Way Off Base: Suing, Not Baseball, is Becoming Our National Pastime

National Policy Analysis #358 /
In the greed-focused world of American personal injury lawyers, no good deed goes unpunished. Take, for instance, a simple act of kindness by Atlanta Braves outfielder Andruw Jones. In an era when utility infielders make more in one season than ...
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When It Comes to Missile Defense, Saying “We Can’t” Won’t Save Lives

National Policy Analysis #342 /
Strange as it might seem, when I was pregnant with my twin sons, I had a recurring dream about World War I. I believe it was due to something every parent discovers: With the birth of children comes the fear ...
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The U.S. Must Tread Carefully to Avoid Creating More Fundamentalist Islamic Governments

National Policy Analysis #344 /
The United States has, since 1979, had two unpleasant experiences with radical Islamic fundamentalist rule: Iran and Afghanistan. In each case, we expected the rule of reason and the norms of modern global exchange would apply to these nations after ...
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Bush’s Rx Drug Proposal Will Help Seniors without Expanding the Federal Bureaucracy

National Policy Analysis #346 /
The contrast between President Bush's Medicare reform proposal and the national health scheme unveiled by Bill and Hillary Clinton seven years ago is as stark as the difference between a free-market democracy and a paternalistic socialist state. A free-market democracy ...
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Fathers Count, Yet Many Count Them Out

National Policy Analysis #339 /
The new Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has a family arrangement that shocks Americans. Nineteen years ago, he and his wife, Kayoko Miyamoto, divorced. He took custody of their two older sons; his ex-wife, their youngest. None of the children ...
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Bush is Right on the Environment – But He Needs Help to Prove It

National Policy Analysis #332 /
Although you wouldn't know it from his critics, President Bush has so far taken the correct actions on environmental issues - including his controversial decisions to end U.S. consideration of the Kyoto global warming treaty and against regulating carbon dioxide ...
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