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  1. Where Neil Gorsuch’s views depart from Antonin Scalia’s: the role of philosophy in legal deliberation

  2. Would Neil Gorsuch push his personal moral views on the public?

  3. In Idaho, prisoners roast potatoes. In Kentucky, they sell cattle

  4. America is alone among rich countries in not providing some form of health care for all its people

  5. Mr Trump’s claims that he has magically jump-started job creation are sheer braggadocio

  6. Our quote of the day is from John Lennon, on rock and roll icon Chuck Berry

  7. Mar 19

    Will American welfare continue to converge gradually with the rest of the rich world, or stay distinctively flinty?

  8. Mar 19

    “Your friendly neighbourhood gun shop”

  9. Mar 19

    With health care, the president needs a product that does an almost impossible job. Sales patter will not do

  10. Mar 19

    One of Mr Trump’s aims appears to be to delegate more of the decision-making to the Pentagon and the spooks

  11. Mar 18

    At today’s pace it would take a couple of centuries to clear the backlog of missing American soldiers

  12. Mar 18

    Even for Mr Trump’s staunchest supporters, the question of whether they can afford health care is starkly binary

  13. Mar 18

    In many prisons, the hourly wage is less than the cost of a chocolate bar at the commissary

  14. Mar 18

    Humanitarian agencies are warning of a looming emergency that would put tens of millions at risk of starvation

  15. Mar 18

    America’s liberals may have accidentally weakened support for the economic policies they favour

  16. Mar 18

    How a gun shop in Chicago became the favourite whipping boy of gun-control campaigners

  17. Mar 17

    Health care is an area in which voters have little incentive to forgive broken promises

  18. Mar 17

    The CIA will be allowed to carry out lethal strikes again, instead of using its drones only to gather intelligence

  19. Mar 17

    In America, the civil war came too early to spur the creation of a national health system

  20. Mar 17

    Church leaders made the simple point that a prosperous country should share some of its riches with others

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