Lexington

• Arizona, rogue state
  

  It is a bit too easy to bash Arizona on immigration. National and local politicians are both to blame

Climate policy

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  Capped

  The Senate’s retreat from cap and trade might, one day, lead to a carbon tax. For now it leaves a dreadful mess

• • • The demise of cap and trade in Congress
  • • An obituary for a climate scientist who encouraged debate, and doubts

Afghanistan

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  Don't go back

  The real lesson from the leaked records of fighting in Afghanistan

• • • America is furious about the leaks, but Pakistan also has much to worry about
  • • We sit down for tea with Julian Assange, the editor of Wikileaks

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• Cooley's law

  A Republican district attorney in California seeks to make three-strikes more humane

• • • Leader: America's incarceration policies are unjust and inefficient
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  • • Briefing: Too many laws, too many prisoners
  • • Prisons full, coffers empty in SC
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  • • Books about crime and punishment

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