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Blogs Liberty and Power Alien Nation?

Dec 16, 2007

Alien Nation?

by Liberty and Power

Have the worlds of science fiction and presidential politics ever been more closely aligned than they were in 2007?

Read"Planetary Politics" by Dave Itzkoff from The New York Times.