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Hail The (Ed) Work-Around
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The Promise of President Trump
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January 19, 2017
The Greatness Of The Puzder Choice
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December 13, 2016
Frank Immigration Talk
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November 30, 2016
Herbert Hoover Was Wrong
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November 18, 2016
Metlife Takes The Lead
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November 8, 2016
Silent Cal's Merit Scholarships
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August 29, 2016
Brexit Abbey
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August 23, 2016
Misreading Prosperity
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April 25, 2016
Coolidge Heads For College
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January 18, 2016
Pulling Down State Credit Ratings
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November 2, 2015
Letter To A New Voter
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August 17, 2015
The 'No Bailout' Pledge
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May 24, 2015
Where the Rubio Tax Plan Falls Short
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April 2, 2015
Jobs Alone Aren't The Answer
Forbes
March 22, 2015
Some Tax Bravery, Please
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February 5, 2015
Hostage to the Child Tax Credit
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February 2, 2015
Where de Blasio Is Right
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December 31, 2014
Coolidge's Tree
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December 24, 2014
Detox The New Republic
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December 16, 2014
Jeff Sessions, the Anti-Warren
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November 18, 2014
Playing Monopoly in New Jersey
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October 22, 2014
The Other Bubble
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October 16, 2014
Compassion Über Alles
National Review
October 2, 2014
Roosevelts versus Plutocrats
Forbes
September 30, 2014
The Glittering Prizes
National Review
September 25, 2014
Progressives Enthroned
National Review
September 20, 2014
Andersen Teaches the Prosecutors a Lesson
National Review
September 11, 2014
Financial Trap for the Young
National Review
September 4, 2014
On Taxes, Look to Canada
National Review
August 28, 2014
Jack Lew Could Learn from the Mellon Plan
National Review
August 7, 2014
Inflation Vacation
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July 16, 2014
How to Bring Your Zombie Child to Life
National Review
July 2, 2014
Mulligan for Hayek
National Review
June 25, 2014
A Cartoon Manifesto
National Review
May 29, 2014
Repeal the Minimum Wage
National Review
May 21, 2014
The Right to Try
National Review
May 14, 2014
The Next Big Tax Hike
National Review
May 2, 2014
How the ACA Could Collapse
National Review
April 23, 2014
Saving Mr. Bank
National Review
April 16, 2014
Unpacking Progressivity
National Review
April 9, 2014
Selling the New Deal
Wall Street Journal
June 21, 2013
Obama's budget is tax grope
Omaha.com
April 21, 2013
He Knew He Was Right
Wall Street Journal
March 29, 2013
The Folly of Philanthropy
Wall Street Journal
February 15, 2013
Engage With the World
Bloomberg
February 11, 2013
How Unions Promote Wage Inequality
Bloomberg
December 25, 2012
Petraeus's Narcissism
Bloomberg
November 12, 2012
Hoover May Haunt Romney, but Not Ryan
Bloomberg
September 11, 2012
Property Uber Alles: Own It
Forbes
July 16, 2012
Property Uber Alles: Own It
Forbes
June 25, 2012
Tax Policy is About Competition, Not Fairness
Wall Street Journal
April 12, 2012
Tax Summit For Growth
Forbes
April 9, 2012
A Plea To Clergy
Forbes
January 16, 2012
Packing The Fed
Forbes
October 24, 2011
Three Policies That Gave Us the Jobs Economy
Wall Street Journal
October 17, 2011
No Jackpot From Casinos
Forbes
September 12, 2011
A Tale of Two Vermont Floods, 84 Years Apart
September 6, 2011
Nixon's Legacy, a Bad Decade: Echoes
Bloomberg
August 12, 2011
Amity speaks at the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation (video)
Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation
July 6, 2011
Missing: One Bard
Forbes
June 27, 2011
My Response To NPR's Rebuttal
Forbes
March 29, 2011
Reassessing Warren G. Harding
National Review
March 4, 2011
Economics By Cartoon
Forbes
January 17, 2011
God and Man and the Tax Bill
National Review
December 17, 2010
An Age of Creative Destruction
Wall Street Journal
October 29, 2010
Family Affair
Forbes
October 25, 2010
The Great Refrainer
Forbes
August 30, 2010
On FDR, Shlaes Annotates Black
National Review
July 19, 2010
Is It Safe?
Forbes
May 24, 2010
Innocent Again
Forbes
March 29, 2010
How to Make a Weak Economy Worse
Wall Street Journal
February 2, 2010
Too Much Bank
Forbes
January 18, 2010
More Than a Game
Forbes
January 18, 2010
Calvin Coolidge Rules
Forbes
November 2, 2009
Amity Gives Lecture on US Economy
Knox College
October 16, 2009
Debating the Depression: An Interview with Amity Shlaes
Acton Institute (Volume 19, Number 4)
September 1, 2009
The New PC
Forbes
August 3, 2009
Deal or No Deal?
Time
June 24, 2009
The Man Who Talked Back
Forbes
May 25, 2009
Fifteen Minutes Of Pain
Forbes
April 30, 2009
Ugly View from Below
Forbes
March 30, 2009
Think Again, Conrad
National Review
March 9, 2009
The Alcove with Mark Molaro (video)
Blip.tv: The Alcove
February 26, 2009
The Economic Fight Of The Year
Forbes
December 3, 2008
Obama's Judges and the Senate
Wall Street Journal
November 29, 2008
The Krugman Recipe for Depression
Wall Street Journal
November 28, 2008
Big Fight
National Review
November 11, 2008
The Voter
Forbes
November 4, 2008
Taking Revenge on the Rich Will Not Bring Recovery
Wall Street Journal
September 20, 2008
Book Review: Judging the Judges
Wall Street Journal
May 1, 2008
Jonathan Alter interviews Amity (video)
Bloggingheads.tv
September 19, 2007
House of Cards
Forbes
August 13, 2007
The Real Deal
American Enterprise Institute
June 25, 2007
Amity on the Middle Class in Commentary
Commentary Magazine
March 1, 2007
Blame delays on federalism
Financial Times
September 11, 2005
Bush has learnt to ride the storm
Financial Times
September 1, 2005
Northwest has public on board
Financial Times
August 28, 2005
Growth often follows tax cuts
Financial Times
August 21, 2005
Making the War Winnable
Financial Times
July 31, 2005
Anodyne justices may prove volatile
Financial Times
July 24, 2005
New York must stop being defensive
Financial Times
July 3, 2005
US begins rethink on China
Financial Times
June 26, 2005
Blue Dog Democrats hound piggies
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June 19, 2005
When George is Stingy with Tony
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June 12, 2005
Sheriff's law versus judge's justice
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June 5, 2005
US Cant devalues renminbi debate
Financial Times
May 29, 2005
Time for the Republicans to be bold
Financial Times
May 22, 2005
Cafta vote is about more than trade
Financial Times
May 15, 2005
GE gambling on green
Financial Times
May 8, 2005
Moral hazard of bail outs
Financial Times
May 1, 2005
US must exorcise its nuclear demons
Financial Times
April 25, 2005
The cross-party unifier
Financial Times
April 17, 2005
Beware the cost of going public
Financial Times
April 3, 2005
Lots of talk can prevent rash action
Financial Times
March 27, 2005
Preparing to take on AMT
Financial Times
March 21, 2005
Why pensions tax cap should remain
Financial Times
March 21, 2005
The vanguard of muscular diplomacy
Financial Times
March 20, 2005
He Hated the French: John Adams
Financial Times
March 14, 2005
Those Rum Tum Tuggers
Financial Times
March 6, 2005
America can rise to Asia's challenge
Financial Times
February 27, 2005
Tax increases fly in face of good ideas
Financial Times
February 20, 2005
Hostage to Granny
Financial Times
February 13, 2005
A dissident's manual for democracy
Financial Times
February 7, 2005
Moral action should be its own reward
Financial Times
January 30, 2005
Stop Apologizing; The Women Flap at Harvard
Financial Times
January 23, 2005
Soros should revive the old liberalism
Financial Times
January 17, 2005
Why pensions tax cap should remain
Financial Times
January 9, 2005
Nationalise or privatise Fannie Mae
Financial Times
January 2, 2005
The new generation gap
Financial Times
December 20, 2004
Focus on growth, not backbiting
Financial Times
December 12, 2004
A tide of democracy is sweeping the globe
Financial Times
December 5, 2004
Personal Finance: The Alms Race
Financial Times
November 23, 2004
Tax changes can save US from critics
Financial Times
November 21, 2004
Roosevelt and Power in Office
Financial Times
November 14, 2004
Don't believe the scaremongers
Financial Times
November 7, 2004
A more conservative America
Financial Times
November 3, 2004
US election is about class not party
Financial Times
October 24, 2004
Bush critics are 'reckless and extreme'
Financial Times
October 17, 2004
A needless transatlantic dogfight
Financial Times
October 10, 2004
Bush has it right on proliferation
Financial Times
October 3, 2004
A vote of no confidence
Financial Times
September 26, 2004
A new spin on Vietnam
Financial Times
September 20, 2004
The Efficiency of Pleasure
Financial Times
September 19, 2004
US labour market - it's a culture thing
Financial Times
September 12, 2004
Caught in a triangulation traps
Financial Times
September 2, 2004
Competitiveness in five easy pieces
Financial Times
August 29, 2004
Figures mask Bush's work
Financial Times
August 22, 2004
At last, a race where race matters less
Financial Times
August 15, 2004
Threat of lawsuits is crippling doctors
Financial Times
July 11, 2004
Reining in the Madison County judges
Financial Times
June 27, 2004
The world's troubles in one word - oil
Financial Times
June 20, 2004
Don't be lured by the super-sized
Financial Times
June 18, 2004
De Gaulle's lessons for Iraq
Financial Times
June 13, 2004
Reaganomics lives on
Financial Times
June 4, 2004
Why Russia is better growing than green
Financial Times
May 23, 2004
A positive step against protectionism
Financial Times
May 16, 2004
Of minarets and missed opportunities
Financial Times
May 9, 2004
Shelters in a shifting tax storm
Financial Times
May 9, 2004
Why big skies don't need a big paycheck
Financial Times
April 19, 2004
Problems with Kerry's misery index
Financial Times
April 18, 2004
Kerry's class war
Financial Times
April 11, 2004
Free the oppressed entrepreneurs
Financial Times
April 4, 2004
Faithful following on Capitol Hill
Financial Times
March 28, 2004
Don't shoot the economist
Financial Times
March 26, 2004
The US impact on Canadian healthcare
Financial Times
March 14, 2004
Protectionism hurts US schools
Financial Times
March 7, 2004
High tax rates at root of tariff battles
Financial Times
February 29, 2004
Back to the Dark Ages
Financial Times
February 22, 2004
Trust the US, or trust al-Qaeda
Financial Times
February 15, 2004
Time to debate taxes
Financial Times
February 1, 2004
A winning way that hurt America
Financial Times
January 25, 2004
The urge to spend needs holding
Financial Times
January 18, 2004
The economy - the final frontier
Financial Times
January 11, 2004
Like a sacred cow to the slaughter
Financial Times
January 4, 2004
Morality's place in the market
Financial Times
December 28, 2003
Bush's doctrine starts to yield results
Financial Times
December 21, 2003
Mission accomplished - 1991's, that is
Financial Times
December 14, 2003
Inside America's economic machine
Financial Times
December 7, 2003
Bush steps into an entitlement trap
Financial Times
November 30, 2003
Taxes threaten web
Financial Times
November 9, 2003
Slavery's link to the war on terror
Financial Times
November 2, 2003
How I became an Amazon
Financial Times
October 26, 2003
A woman's right
Financial Times
October 19, 2003
We are the champions...aren't we?
Financial Times
October 12, 2003
The dollar and the tyranny of the weak
Financial Times
October 5, 2003
Don't be sentimental, Mr Bush
Financial Times
September 22, 2003
Bush's Green goals
Financial Times
September 14, 2003
The jealous gods of international law
Financial Times
September 7, 2003
Send farmers off to the markets
Financial Times
August 31, 2003
Why Soviet history is back in vogue
Financial Times
August 24, 2003
The allure of the business hero
Financial Times
August 17, 2003
Dean big on redistribution
Financial Times
August 10, 2003
US high on drug delusion
Financial Times
August 3, 2003
Iraqi echoes of post-war Germany
Financial Times
July 27, 2003
The deficit debate
Financial Times
July 21, 2003
Mayor Mike's SimCity blunder
Financial Times
May 20, 2003
Greetings from Berlin
Financial Times
May 12, 2003
Take oil from the hands of the state
Financial Times
March 26, 2003
A German bid for efficiency
Financial Times
February 25, 2003
Lunch with the FT: Angela Merkel
Financial Times
February 21, 2003
Rumsfeld is right about Europe
Financial Times
January 27, 2003
The battle over the tax cut
Financial Times
January 3, 2003
Rebuilding New York
Financial Times
December 23, 2002
Still hopeful globe
Financial Times
December 23, 2002
A reason to protect rich inventors
Financial Times
December 16, 2002
A fairer measure of Republican success
Financial Times
December 9, 2002
A rush to get fat on McDonald's
Financial Times
November 28, 2002
Budget Troubles and Worker Woe
Financial Times
November 22, 2002
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Financial Times
November 18, 2002
Bush Should Cut Taxes
Financial Times
November 11, 2002
Political Correctness of the Fed
Financial Times
November 8, 2002
Joschka Fischer's Resistible Charms
Financial Times
November 4, 2002
The Sheriff Walks Down Main Street
Financial Times
October 28, 2002
Life, Liberty and Acupuncture
Financial Times
October 23, 2002
Europe's Unpalatable Attitude
Financial Times
October 21, 2002
Two Complementary Wars
Financial Times
October 14, 2002
America's Legal Hellholes
Financial Times
October 9, 2002
America's Misplaced Compassion
Financial Times
October 3, 2002
Freedom for Lebanon
Financial Times
September 30, 2002
Washington's Nasty Little Tax Battle
Financial Times
September 23, 2002
How to End America's Ugly Image
Financial Times
September 16, 2002
The Naked Truth About Tariffs
Financial Times
September 12, 2002
Democrats Fall in Line
Financial Times
September 9, 2002
Drumbeat for Free Trade
Financial Times
September 3, 2002
Rules That Protect Protectionism
Financial Times
September 2, 2002
Dangers Ignited By Overregulation
Financial Times
August 26, 2002
The Engineer Who Tinkered Too Much
Financial Times
August 19, 2002
Democratic On Paper is Not Enough
Financial Times
August 1, 2002
Housing is Good as Gold
Financial Times
July 29, 2002
How to Stay Out of the Deficit Abyss
Financial Times
July 25, 2002
New Democrat's Unaffordable Luxury
Financial Times
July 24, 2002
Gays, Nerds and Growth
Financial Times
July 19, 2002
The Way We Lived Then
Financial Times
July 15, 2002
Holding a Profession to Account
Financial Times
July 1, 2002
Biting The Hand That Feeds You
Financial Times
June 27, 2002
Don't Let ImClone Spoil the VC Party
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June 21, 2002
Regulation Can Harm Quality of Life
Financial Times
June 17, 2002
Europe Fails to See Terror's Threat
Financial Times
June 10, 2002
Kozlowski and the Art of Taxation
Financial Times
June 5, 2002
Land of Opportunity for Nanny
Financial Times
June 3, 2002
Let US Corporations Off the Tax Leash
Financial Times
May 27, 2002
A Beautiful Exception
Financial Times
May 24, 2002
Lessons For the Middle East
Financial Times
May 21, 2002
Malthus, Sachs, Email
Financial Times
May 16, 2002
Finding a home for your nest egg
Financial Times
May 8, 2002
Of Lawyers and Doctors
Financial Times
May 8, 2002
Aid, Development and Guilt
Financial Times
May 7, 2002
Finding a home for your nest egg
Financial Times
May 1, 2002
A British warning for American healthcare
Financial Times
April 23, 2002
No to insurance
Financial Times
April 10, 2002
The violent road from Baghdad to Jerusalem
Financial Times
April 8, 2002
Let free marketeers of all countries unite
Financial Times
April 1, 2002
Woman watch: A job for women, part II
Financial Times
March 20, 2002
An exhausting trip up and down the ladder
Financial Times
March 14, 2002
The danger of making policy by the numbers
Financial Times
March 11, 2002
Exhuming Old Hickory for the war on terror
Financial Times
March 4, 2002
A job for women
Financial Times
February 28, 2002
A challenge for compassionate conservatism
Financial Times
February 25, 2002
After Tax: States' smokescreen for tax hypocrisy
Financial Times
February 20, 2002
Echoes of leadership against a global threat
Financial Times
February 19, 2002
When "Pro-Family" isn't
February 14, 2002
Tales from the Arab economies
Financial Times
February 11, 2002
An offer Enron's advisers could have refused
Financial Times
February 4, 2002
That meter, the State of the Union
Financial Times
January 31, 2002
War, peace and America's vanishing surplus
Financial Times
January 28, 2002
Allow all American children a decent chance
Financial Times
January 21, 2002
Putting all your 401(k) eggs in one basket
Financial Times
January 17, 2002
Do not disturb the profit sharing revolution
Financial Times
January 15, 2002
The Argentine peso holds lessons for the euro
Financial Times
January 8, 2002
Home is where the liberal heart has no place
Financial Times
December 31, 2001
The invigorating effect of America's pink slips
Financial Times
December 17, 2001
Raising taxes can hurt the war effort
Financial Times
December 12, 2001
Whose side are you on, Democrat legislators?
Financial Times
December 10, 2001
Schooled as Martyrs
Financial Times
December 5, 2001
No need to be deterred by the oil weapon
Financial Times
December 3, 2001
"Ease"-ing the pain of high taxes
Financial Times
November 27, 2001
Fighting terrorism first, multilateralism second
Financial Times
November 26, 2001
Mining for democracy - or not
Financial Times
November 20, 2001
Unbalanced by a wealth of oil and diamonds
Financial Times
November 19, 2001
Why Afghanistan needs a General MacArthur
Financial Times
November 15, 2001
America must fight against terrorism at home
Financial Times
October 8, 2001
America finds a home front amid the wreckage
Financial Times
September 24, 2001
War against terrorism will rise from the ashes
Financial Times
September 12, 2001
A tiger slumbers in Maine's northern woods
Financial Times
August 13, 2001
Towards a patent-free nirvana?
Financial Times
July 20, 2001
Stimulating debate on rebates' effects
Financial Times
July 12, 2001
Five reasons for gloom about global growth
Financial Times
June 18, 2001
Show pity to Alice in Tax Wonderland
Financial Times
June 13, 2001
America must take a French lesson in trade
Financial Times
June 11, 2001
Whatever happened to simple?
Financial Times
June 7, 2001
Loving and hating the Bush tax bill
Financial Times
May 30, 2001
Pot vs Kettle
Financial Times
May 25, 2001
Big tax cuts can be beautiful
Financial Times
May 19, 2001
Adam Smith in love
Financial Times
May 10, 2001
Money can't buy happiness? Think again.
Financial Times
April 26, 2001
Calling America's rogues and entrepreneurs
Financial Times
April 23, 2001
A convenient form of servitude
Financial Times
April 4, 2001
When domestic law arrives by the back door
Financial Times
April 2, 2001
A Lexus tax cut suits the jalopy driver
Financial Times
March 29, 2001
The unchallenged dominance of King Dollar
Financial Times
March 26, 2001
Beware the state tax desperadoes
March 22, 2001
A nation of lemmings?
Financial Times
March 16, 2001
The hidden danger of a regulatory recession
Financial Times
March 12, 2001
Why Hollywood is losing the limelight
Financial Times
March 7, 2001
Trampling on the theory of path dependence
Financial Times
March 5, 2001
Fighting the good fight
Financial Times
February 28, 2001
It is time for Freddie and Fannie to grow up
Financial Times
February 26, 2001
IT's important February
Financial Times
February 25, 2001
The guilty conscience of America's millionaires
Financial Times
February 19, 2001
Taxes and promises
Financial Times
February 15, 2001
The benefits of helping the Gulfstream crowd
Financial Times
February 12, 2001
The story of 'O'
Financial Times
February 8, 2001
Why Bush's school vouchers are a smart move
Financial Times
February 5, 2001
Lost in the cracks of a cultural divide
Financial Times
February 1, 2001
Surplus to America's economic requirements
Financial Times
January 29, 2001
Clueless in California
Financial Times
January 25, 2001
A gloomy end for a half-hearted undertaking
Financial Times
January 22, 2001
Where stands the pious politician?
Financial Times
January 18, 2001
The challenge of an ally with its own mind
Financial Times
January 15, 2001
An unexpected family portrait
Financial Times
January 11, 2001
The trick of tax 'convenience'
Financial Times
January 3, 2001
Time to stop blaming Greenspan over taxes
Financial Times
January 1, 2001
The burden of education
Financial Times
December 7, 2000
How economic bad news came good for Bush
Financial Times
December 4, 2000
The Boies factor
Financial Times
November 30, 2000
Fair play and the rules of the electoral game
Financial Times
November 27, 2000
The shining prospect beyond a cloudy election
Financial Times
November 21, 2000
An electoral system that gets better with age
Financial Times
November 9, 2000
Those powerful expats
Financial Times
November 2, 2000
Canada sprints forward
Financial Times
October 25, 2000
Wake up and smell the Starbucks
Financial Times
October 4, 2000
Chicago goes to Moscow
Financial Times
May 25, 2000
Prosperity Is No Accident
Wall Street Journal
December 22, 1999
Give It Back
Hoover Digest, No. 4
August 9, 1999
The Greedy Hand in a Velvet Glove
Hoover Digest, No. 3
April 15, 1999
Educating Mary Barrosse
Policy Review
April 10, 1999
The Greedy Hand
Hoover Digest, No. 2
March 1, 1999
School Choice Isn't a New Idea
Hoover Digest, No. 1
October 1, 1998
School Vouchers: The Next Great Leap Forward
Hoover Digest, No. 4
July 9, 1998
Whither the Tax Revolt?
Hoover Digest, No. 4
June 5, 1998
Children's Crusade
Wall Street Journal
April 18, 1996
The Foreigners Buchanan Calls His Own
Wall Street Journal
March 1, 1996
Live Flat or Die
Wall Street Journal
February 16, 1996
Taking the War Against Saddam Into Baghdad
Wall Street Journal
June 1, 1993

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