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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER | Vol. 1, No. 5
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Essay | 12Washington is not an ideas-free zone. (Usually.) By John F. Harris
The Politico 50 Survey | 58Want to know what the most interesting thinkers in American politics have to say about
everything from the presidential campaign to the war in Iraq? So did we.
Washington, 2024 | 84The Politico 50 predict how Obamacare and the Tea Party will look 10 years from now.
A GUIDE TO THE THINKERS, DOERS & DREAMERS CHANGING AMERICAN POLITICS IN 2014—AND BEYOND.
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The One-Man Think Tank | 18Who’s inside Rand Paul’s intellectual inner circle?By David Nather
The Politico 50 InterviewThomas Piketty on becoming a celebrity economist. | 23
Bill de Blasio on how the New York left went national. | 64
Keith Alexander on the case for the national security state. | 80
Getting to ‘I Do’ | 27How Chad Griffin and Roberta Kaplan brought the gay marriage movement to its tipping point.By Dustin Lance Black
The Alitomayor Effect | 37How Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor became the new Scalia and Ginsburg.By Laurence Tribe
The Disrupters | 43What happens when tech companies like Airbnb, Uber and Tesla start outsmarting government regulators?By Russ Roberts
Charles Koch’s Brain | 47The little-known grand strategist, Richard Fink, behind the conservative billionaire’s political empire.By Daniel Schulman
‘I’ve Been a Pariah for So Long’ | 31E.D. Hirsch’s education theories are going mainstream.By Peg Tyre
