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What Joe Klein glosses over is that Clinton was probably the only U.S. President who held up a mirror to the nation so it could inspect its own morality and yet survive the shattered image. Clinton's legacy will be much more than an attack on the moneyed right. His...
That scenario isn't as farfetched as you might think. It's called a prediction market, based on the notion that a marketplace is a better organizer of insight and predictor of the future than individuals are. Once confined to research universities, the idea of markets working within companies has...
The current enthusiasm can be traced in part, oddly enough, to last summer's high-profile flop of a market that was supposed to help predict future terrorist attacks. A public backlash killed that Pentagon project a few months before its debut, but not before the media broadcast the notion...
It's hunting season for investigative commissions. In Washington and London, two separate inquiries are pinning down how the allied intelligence services got it so wrong on Iraqi WMD. And in Madrid, a parliamentary investigation is probing the government's response to the devastating March 11 terrorist attacks - and trying...
America and Britain are still coming to terms with the faulty intelligence they presented the world during the walkup to war in Iraq - and the political fallout is getting heavy. Last week, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee issued a blistering critique of the CIA for exaggerating the threat of Saddam...