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At its most basic level, the role of government is to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.  As individuals we obviously cannot monitor the safety practices of a gigantic multinational oil company drilling off our shore.  We ...Read more

Last week CenterMovement.org columnist Adele Wick issued a report card evaluating President Obama’s performance on domestic issues. Report card punditry is fun, but we also seriously hope our evaluations encourage fair-minded thinking. In that spirit we invite ...Read more

Eight years after 911, and with billions and billions of dollars spent on homeland security ($50.5 billion in 2009 alone), the best defense against a terrorist attack on an airplane is the bare hands of the passenger in seat 20J. ...Read more

Does anyone remember the “Doomsday Clock?”  Created in 1947 by the directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, the clock’s hands were always poised menacingly minutes before midnight, when life on earth would end in ...Read more