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August 2009

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Stick to Facts to Find Health-Care Change That Works
The ferocity of the national debate over health care continues to build, and rhetoric has all but replaced reality. People on all sides of the issue appear to want anything but the facts, write Elizabeth McGlynn and Jeffrey Wasserman.
Aug 29, 2009
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How Russia Can and Can't Help Obama
In hindsight, KGB analysts and Soviet officials were extraordinarily prescient about the perils of Islamist terrorism and the fallout from the Afghan jihad. But could Russia, for all its faults and foibles, be a more valuable counterterrorism partner today, asks Brian Michael Jenkins.
Aug 26, 2009
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Fix the Healthcare System (and Fight the Recession, Too)
A little-known proposition amid the highly charged health care debate is that properly controlling health care spending could generate economic growth equal to 1 percent of gross domestic product, write Dana Goldman and Neeraj Sood.
Aug 21, 2009
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Co-Ops: A Very Tall Order
Cooperatives are a very tall order: a new type of organization, never before tested on a large scale, meant to fix the apparently intractable problems of high and rising costs, barriers to access and poor quality care. Proponents can point to the impressive example of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, writes Elizabeth McGlynn.
Aug 19, 2009
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Limited Options: Deterring North Korea and Iran
Over the course of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, the U.S. has tried a host of strategies to stop or slow the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs. The question today is no longer whether the U.S. can still prevent the emergence of nuclear-armed regional adversaries but how to prevent them from being empowered, writes Lowell H. Schwartz.
Aug 14, 2009
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Going Local: The Key to Afghanistan
The rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan is now President Barack Obama's war, one he pledged to win during his election campaign. One of the biggest problems, however, is that since late 2001, the United States has crafted its Afghanistan strategy on a fatally flawed assumption, writes Seth Jones.
Aug 8, 2009