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  • BOOK REVIEW: Between glory and the Suez crisis

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    FAMILY BRITAIN: 1951-1957

  • KREMLIN KLEPTOCRACY

    COHEN: Free Khodorkovsky

    Russia's capitalist future is in the balance

    by Ariel Cohen

    President Obama has his hands full dealing with Russia. However, high on his agenda should be the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Moscow's most famous prisoner.

  • FOOD FIGHT

    PERO: Your Cheerios prescription

    The Food and Drug Administration goes off its meds

    by Dan Pero

    An apple a day might keep the doctor away - but not the Food and Drug Adminis- tration. In a sign that Big Govern- ment is alive and thriving, FDA chief Dr. Margaret Hamburg last week notified food makers that the government is cracking down on box-front claims it considers misleading and even has threatened to force some products to go through the agency's drug-approval process.

  • INDEX OF DEPENDENCE

    FEULNER: Sapping our self-reliance

    Too few pay taxes, too many get benefits

    by Ed Feulner

    Sometimes a snapshot tells an entire story. Take one of the signs at last year's Tea Party rally in Washington: "Grandma's not shovel-ready." That summed up the anti-Obamacare, pro-smaller government movement in a single image.

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    FAMILY BRITAIN: 1951-1957

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    In the bizarro world of federal regulation, truth often doesn't matter in the way that regular people understand it. For instance, the Food and Drug ...

  • Free Khodorkovsky

    Ariel Cohen is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Institute for International Studies.

  • Ariel Cohen is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Institute for International Studies.

    Ariel Cohen is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Institute for International Studies.

  • THOMPSON: Bias by the numbers

    Is an employment test unfair if it doesn't produce a racially balanced result? A case before the U.S. Supreme Court deals with this question. The ...

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    CROWLEY: The president meets reality

    Monica Crowley

    Reality bites. President Obama is just discovering this, after campaigning astride a unicorn of hope and change and after a year of trying to govern high atop Fantasyland.

    FEULNER: Jobs we all pay for

    Ed Feulner

    Americans often wonder where all our tax money goes. Well, a good chunk finances a steadily growing government work force. State and local governments spent $1.1 trillion on employee wages and benefits in 2008. That's half of what those governments spent overall.

    BANDOW: A champion at meddling

    Doug Bandow

    Five years ago, Western governments and nongovernmental organizations did their best to support Ukraine's so-called Orange Revolution, which propelled Viktor Yushchenko into the Ukrainian presidency. But Mr. Yushchenko's performance in office was a disaster; in last month's presidential election, he finished in fifth place with a dismal 5.4 percent. His ...

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