Why is Barack Obama dodging a single-payer option? Care would be publicly funded, but privately delivered. People would go to the doctor of their choice. Obama recently answered: “If I were …
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I am sickened by the death of Dr. George Tiller, a physician who displayed lifelong respect for the woman and her body. Operation Rescue condemned his murder, though in language that tacitly …
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Where are the real fiscal conservatives? The business media anguish over how we can pay down our escalating debt. Their only suggestion is draconian reductions in a successful, well-funded federal …
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Until recently, our business press routinely defamed European societies as economically rigid and morally bankrupt. European governments tax innovative businesses and coddle the young and the …
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Economic crises are as endemic to capitalism as is its resilience. Nonetheless, the system seldom survives in the terms predicted even by its most powerful players. The corporate CEOs that dominate …
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Everyone now knows that President Obama faces an economic crisis unprecedented in recent times. What was less apparent is that he confronts an equally severe political crisis.
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The theme of Barack Obama’s first six weeks might well be “bipartisanship.” Obama is sometimes praised as bipartisan while on other occasions treated as a typical partisan. Republicans claim …
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As the House and Senate prepared to resolve differences on the new stimulus bill, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, commented to the press: “I have consistently advocated … a package that will truly …
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President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress face one overriding domestic challenge. Can they reverse a generation-long plunge toward economic inequality not seen since the Gilded …
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