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Today we present two new online-exclusive articles: Bruce Fein tackles the myth that America’s safety and prosperity depend upon promoting democracy abroad, while Kelley Vlahos asks whether Sarah Palin’s recent remarks about marijuana signal a shift in conservative thinking on the drug war.

Also online for the first time is contributing editor Tom Woods’s review of FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell — an article as timely now as when it was first published.

Last but far from least, courtesy of Tom Engelhardt and TomDispatch.com we have Ann Jones’s report from Afghanistan on the Army’s extravagant spending and crippling ignorance of Afghan culture.

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