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RECENT ARTICLES . . .

Intelligent Policing Comes to New Jersey
Judith Miller, City Journal, Summer 2008

Bulldozing Through New York
Hope Cohen and Rosemary Scanlon, The New York Sun, 08-07-08

Anti-Business States Awash In Red Ink
Steven Malanga, Forbes.com, 08-06-08 (This article originally appeared on Real Clear Markets, 8-6-08)

How Beijing Stole the Games
Guy Sorman, City Journal Online, 08-05-08 (This article also appeared on NRO Web Briefing, 08-06-08)

Virginia Is Sitting on the Nuclear Energy Mother Lode
Max Schulz, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, 08-05-08 (This article originally appeared on Real Clear Markets, 8-6-08)(This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal, 7-26-08)

Books: Five Best
Andrew Klavan, Wall Street Journal, 08-02-08

When Journalists Applaud Obama
John Leo, New York Daily News, 07-31-08 (This article also appears on RealClearPolitics.com, 8-1-08)

It's The Spending
E.J. McMahon, New York Post, 07-31-08

The Rest of the Sentence...
John McWhorter, New York Sun, 07-31-08

Courting Disaster: How City, State May Bungle Budget Crisis
Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 07-30-08

Barack Obama, Shaman
Michael Knox Beran, OpinionJournal.org, 07-30-08

Let's Privatize Our Roadways
Steven Malanga, Real Clear Markets, 07-30-08

NY Nightmare: This Isn't Just a 'Budget Crisis'
Nicole Gelinas, New York Post, 07-29-08

Math Is Harder for Girls
Heather Mac Donald, NRO Web Briefing, 07-29-08

About the Next Crisis
Howard Husock, New York Sun, 07-29-08

Economics Does Not Lie: The dismal science is at last a science—and the world is the beneficiary
Guy Sorman, RealClearPolitics.com, 07-28-08 (This article is also linked on RealClearMarkets, 07-28-08, NRO Web Briefings, 07-28-08, and Economics View, 07-28-08)

New strategy, citizens can turn corner on crime
George L. Kelling and Ed Pawlowski, Allentown Morning Call, 07-27-08

Virginia Is Sitting on the Energy Mother Lode
Max Schulz, Wall Street Journal, 07-26-08 (This article also appeared on Real Clear Politics on 7-26-08)

Organizer-in-Chief
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The MTA Mess
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Ignorance is bliss on the state Regents history exam
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In the U.S., Selectively Applied Capitalism
Steven Malanga, Real Clear Markets, 07-23-08

Is ballot proposal real reform or partisan ploy?
Jim Copland, Detroit News, 07-23-08

American Cancer Care Beats the Rest
David Gratzer, Wall Street Journal, 07-22-08

A Look Back At the New Age
Paul Beston, Wall Street Journal, 07-22-08

The Great African-American Awakening
Myron Magnet, RealClearPolitics.com, 07-21-08 (This article is also linked on NRO Web Briefings, 07-21-08)

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Uncle Sam Can Bail Out Fannie, But Who'll Bail Out Uncle Sam?
Nicole Gelinas, Investor's Business Daily, 07-21-08

Look South For Energy Examples
Charles Sahm, New York Sun, 07-21-08

From Theatrics to Reality
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Houston, New York Has a Problem
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New Trial Lawyers Inc. Update

Trial Lawyers Inc. Update JUDGING OHIO: Legal Reforms are Steering Ohio's Struggling Economy in the Right Direction
August 2008


Empire Center Launches Transparency Website
New Yorkers can now see how their state and local tax dollars are being spent, thanks to a new transparency website launched by the Empire Center for New York State Policy. Check out www.SeeThroughNY.net—a searchable databases of the entire payroll of state government employees, operating expenses by both houses of the New York State Legislature, the Legislature’s pork-barrel "member items" spending for 2008-09 and current teachers' union contracts and superintendent of schools's contracts for nearly all of NY's school districts.

The Summer 2008 issue of City Journal is available!

Read Harry Stein's article The Future of Conservative Books.

NEW SECOND OPINION!
Experts Discuss Personal Genetics Testing in our "Second Opinion" Expert Forum!

This Week's Expert Panel:
  • Maynard V. Olson
  • Ben Sasse
  • John Fossella

Click here to read their second opinions.

Debating No Child Left Behind

This week, Sol Stern, City Journal contributing editor, participates in a NewTalk forum about the future of the the No Child Left Behind Act, joining other education experts such as Diane Ravitch, Chester Finn, and Randi Weingarten. Click here to read this ongoing NewTalk forum.

New Book by John McWhorter!

All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can't Save Black America In his newest book, All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can't Save Black America, John McWhorter delves into the universe of hip-hop, analyzing its content and celebrating its artistry. But he also points out that hip-hop is simply music, and takes issue with those who celebrate a "hip-hop revolution" that will never lead to meaningful change. McWhorter points beyond these empty gestures to a brave new politics, calling for a renewed sense of purpose and pride in black communities. To learn more, click here.

All About the Beat, is available now! To order your copy on Amazon.com, click here.

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