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alan-greenblatt

Alan Greenblatt

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Alan Greenblatt — Editor. He is the coauthor of a standard textbook on state and local governments. He previously worked as a reporter for NPR and CQ and has written about politics and culture for many other outlets, print and online. He can be found on Twitter at @AlanGreenblatt.

I've often talked with members of Congress and other politicians about the silliness of their pathological fear of being voted out of office. When an ...
Joel Garreau, who memorably encapsulated the life of the outer suburbs in the 1992 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, has found yet another ...
Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to hold both polling and fundraising leads over his numerous and colorful opponents in his reelection bid this year. But ...
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Alderman Todd Stroger, the Democratic nominee to replace his father as Cook County Board president, has donated $8,000 to a Nation ...
I've been talking to people up in Massachusetts about why the Big Dig has turned into such a black eye, while another project with a ...
"Would you vote for a candidate who wrote a trashy, pornographic romance novel that glorifies premarital sex and seeks to arouse sexual interest as ...
Minimum wage hikes remain a hot issue in states, but as you probably know, Congress looks likely to approve the first national increase in nine ...
In recent months, I've been talking with a few academic types about how some of the older industrial towns in the Northeast are starting to ...
While reading The New York Times the other day, I was struck by the claim made in a piece on Guantanamo that, when it comes ...
Since South Carolina will be the first southern state to hold a presidential primary in 2008, many of the governors who are gathered in Charleston for ...