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April 8, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Admits He Only Wants White People to Come to the U.S.
The former president wondered why the U.S. doesn’t get more migrants from Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland.
May 11, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Something Is Damp in the State of Denmark
Netflix's new horror series "The Rain" makes a mess of a genuinely scary premise.
September 3, 2015
C. Nathan Ober
Paid Leave for Fathers Is Good for Everybody
How American policymakers can learn from Denmark's mistake
July 31, 2015
Paul Blest
Bernie Sanders's Blind Spot on Race Was Imported From Scandinavia
The limits of democratic socialism in America today
June 23, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
I'm Insanely Jealous of Sweden's Work-Family Policies. You Should Be, Too.
April 15, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Read My Lips: More New Taxes!
A bigger April 15 bill would mean a better society
October 5, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
Blue States are from Scandinavia, Red States are from Guatemala
A theory of a divided nation
July 12, 2012
John Banville
The Lost Leader
July 25, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Bigger Government, Smaller People? Not Really, Mr. Speaker
April 18, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Medicare And Social Solidarity
October 26, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
Why the Curve Bends Really Slowly
April 19, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Public Distrust Of Government Will Not Shrink Government
March 30, 2010
Bradford Plumer
Europe Could Go 100% Renewable By 2050
January 2, 2010
David Rieff
The End of Hunger?
March 24, 2009
Bradford Plumer
When Space Weather Attacks (Apocalypse Edition)
April 9, 2008
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Will Cell Phones Kill You?
May 3, 2004
Nathaniel Frank
Perverted
November 26, 1990
Dorothy Wickenden
Drug of Choice

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