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Monthly Archives: November 2016

The Non-Problem of a “Bloated” Federal Bureaucracy

29 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By David Luban Just Security During his campaign, Donald Trump promised “a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and […]

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Japan, the United States, and Public Memory

28 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Claire Greenstein & Brandon Tensley Foreign Affairs Seventy-five years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the countries that were involved in World War II’s […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

A U.S. Retreat From TPP Will Empower China

22 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

Editorial The New York Times The limits of President Obama’s ability to reassure the world about America’s future role in the international sphere was apparent at the summit meeting of […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

The Assault on Federally Supported Science

18 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Robert D. Atkinson The Christian Science Monitor Distrust of government has long focused on economic and cultural matters, with conservative luminaries from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan arguing that […]

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The Battle for the Arctic

15 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andreas Kuersten The National Interest Anyone who’s paid any attention to media coverage of the Arctic, even just in passing, knows that there’s a battle brewing for the top […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Is Putin’s Russia Ready for Trump’s America?

14 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Joshua Yaffa The New Yorker Last Wednesday morning, members of the Russian parliament broke into spontaneous applause. “Colleagues three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in U.S. Presidential […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

What Effect do Soda Taxes Actually Have?

10 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Nathan Collins Pacific Standard Four American cities—Boulder, Colorado; and Albany, Oakland, and San Francisco, California—just finished voting on controversial soda-tax ballot measures meant to raise prices, curb consumption, and, […]

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LAW

Killer Robots: Moral Concerns vs. Military Advantages

9 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Colin Roberts The National Interest The myriad of opinions on the prospect of autonomous weapons in the not-too-distant future seem to portend a hopeless situation—the U.S. is either doomed […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Good and Bad of Predictive Policing

4 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sidney Perkowitz Aeon In an age of anxiety, the words sound so reassuring: predictive policing. The first half promises an awareness of events that have not yet occurred. The […]

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