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- Age Discrimination for the Young - February 9, 2010
- The age of adulthood -- and the rights and responsibilities that come with it -- is largely a matter of opinion. Age 18 traditionally separates minors from adults. But...
- The Urban Future Isn't All About Population Booms - February 4, 2010
- Sunbelt-and-sprawl advocate Joel Kotkin wrote two years ago that the future of American urbanism wasn't in the "elite cities," such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles and...
- Off in the New Age - February 2, 2010
- Money, spirituality and something else combined last October to set off a ghastly tragedy near Sedona, Ariz. Participants in a "Sweat Lodge" ceremony, run by New Age...
- Dems Must Swing for the Fences or Lose - January 28, 2010
- Is there a patriot in the house? Is there anyone in Washington who regards governing as a means to accomplish anything other than win the sterile game of Democrat versus...
- Criticism of 'Avatar' More Interesting Than Film - January 26, 2010
- Somewhere between "Avatar's" first billion-dollar gross and its subsequent $841 million take lie my 10 bucks. "Avatar" is about blue-skinned beings who confront...
- Pass Universal Coverage Now, Fix It Later - January 21, 2010
- The miracle in Massachusetts was made possible through a bigger miracle four years ago. That's when the commonwealth became the first and so far only state to guarantee...
- Taxing Bankers Is Only a Start - January 19, 2010
- Tax the bankers' profits, tax their bonuses, tax their golf scores. I mean it. Take their windfall, and give it to the taxpayers who bailed them out. Britain and France...
- Why Profiling Can't Ensure Airline Security - January 12, 2010
- Fifty years ago this month, a lawyer living in a posh New York suburb with his former model wife was being investigated for embezzlement. Julian Andrew Frank of...
- An Unchained Dodd Rides Into Finance Reform - January 7, 2010
- With polls showing that Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd would probably lose to most everyone running against him, the Democrat's decision not to seek re-election is a relief...
- Dems Should Stay Cool About Midterms - January 5, 2010
- The midterm elections this November have spawned midyear panic, largely by Democrats. With their majorities in the Senate and House, Democrats have the most to lose. And...
- Let House Prices Do What They Must - December 31, 2009
- To paraphrase Yogi Berra, the bubble's not over till the last drop splatters. That is certainly the case with the housing bubble. Home prices that seemed to be...
- We'd Be Happy to Do This 'Strip Tease' - December 29, 2009
- U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz proudly championed a measure last spring that bans whole-body imaging as a primary screening technique at airports. "You don't have to look at...
- The Future of Paper - December 24, 2009
- All through the long winter night, my digital gadgets lay snug in their recharging docks as Enya crooned on the iPod. It was on such a wintertide eve last December that...
- About the So-Called Republican Moderates ... - December 22, 2009
- Many have bemoaned the near-extinction of the political species known as the moderate Republican. Once thriving in cold habitats, particularly New England, socially...
- Joe Lieberman's Big Picture - December 17, 2009
- When Joe Lieberman said he would probably support the health care legislation -- now that the public option and Medicare buy-in are being stripped out -- the...
- Sin Taxes Are a Shame - December 15, 2009
- Sly industry-sponsored ads in which ordinary Americans worry about some scheme in Congress generally irritate me. A grunt greeted the TV spot you've no doubt seen: A...
- Medicare-For-All - December 10, 2009
- So it's come down to this. Republicans and some Democrats wouldn't vote for a government-run health plan that competed with private insurers -- though it would enjoy no...
- America's Clean Energy Defeatists - December 8, 2009
- The United States used to be the can-do country. A respect for science married to the entrepreneurial spirit propelled America to the forefront of global progress and...
- The Politization of Crime - December 3, 2009
- It's over for Mike Huckabee. His presidential hopes will not survive revelations that as governor of Arkansas he had commuted the long prison term of the now-dead...
- Working on Apps Not Abs - December 1, 2009
- This is a nation of goose-necked children hunched over their electronics in front of a TV. They will turn into goose-necked adults with vitamin D deficiencies, the...
- Whom Can You Trust on Climate Change? - November 26, 2009
- When President Obama attends the United Nations meeting on climate in Copenhagen, you can be sure that the deniers of global warming will go on a romp. They'll dredge up...
- Insane Debate Over Wasted Medical Spending - November 24, 2009
- Doctors would jab sharp instruments into King Henry VIII's arm and drain blood out of his body. The best medical minds of the 16th century prescribed bloodletting as a...
- Patrick Kennedy, the Bishop and RI Politics - RCP Blog - November 24, 2009
- Two Years Later: Revisiting New London - November 19, 2009
- Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center standing next to a...
- The Party of Fiscal Babies - November 17, 2009
- Nearly every Republican these days calls for tax cuts and lower deficits, and in the same sentence. Point out that these goals clash -- that taxes pay for government and...
- Casinos Take Money From States - November 12, 2009
- In Las Vegas, house prices have dropped 55 percent since peaking in August 2006, and the foreclosure rate is seven times the national average. Gigantic new condo towers...
- Two Dots Don't Make a Political Map - November 10, 2009
- It is the duty of every pundit to be all-knowing on what the recent elections mean for the future of American politics. They may have only three dots to connect -- and...
- Insurgents on the Right Lose Badly - November 5, 2009
- The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York's 23rd congressional district: 1. Support a candidate who doesn't live in the...
- The Population Boomerang in Iran - November 3, 2009
- Iranian students are engaging this week in Round Two of their street-level struggle for reform. Round One took place last June, when young people protested the fixed...
- What Does the FHA Think It Is Doing? - October 29, 2009
- Exactly who made Bernadine Shimon think that she could buy a new house shortly after declaring bankruptcy and losing another home to foreclosure? The American taxpayer,...
- The Phantom of the Option - October 27, 2009
- The public option, we hear, is about to take earthly form. While congressional leaders working to combine five health care reform bills will determine its final shape, a...
- 'America's Best Idea' Meets One of the Worst - October 22, 2009
- The Ken Burns series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" got me thinking about one of America's worst ideas, the war on drugs. Particularly ill-conceived is the...
- Social Security: Every Politician's Toy? - October 20, 2009
- Social Security is a glossy piece of paper on which nearly every politician wants to finger-paint an agenda. But Social Security has no need of ornament. It is a very...
- Science and the Female Brain - October 15, 2009
- The recent award of Nobel Prizes in biology and chemistry to three women dredges up Larry Summers' suggestion in 2005 that differences in the female brain may account...
- Weary of Culinary Spectacle, Spending and Sport - October 13, 2009
- I must be the only "foodie" who didn't love "Julie & Julia," the movie about Julia Child and the office worker she inspired, Julie Powell. Am I allowed? And even...
- Health Care Reform Helps Every Generation - October 8, 2009
- In terms of health coverage, one date separates the most secure Americans from the least secure: a person's 65th birthday. Age 65 is when one qualifies for Medicare, the...
- The Terrorist Within - October 6, 2009
- What you need to know about Michael C. Finton is that he parked a van in front of a federal building in Springfield, Ill., believing it was loaded with explosives. He...
- Fix Health Care Now, Remove Warts Later - October 1, 2009
- "Rome was not built in a day," Montana Democrat Max Baucus said with resignation after the Senate committee he heads voted to reject a "public option." A government-run...
- Liberals -- Choose Your Friends Wisely - September 29, 2009
- Nearly as unappetizing as the video of ACORN workers explaining how to run a prostitution business, cheat on taxes and import underage streetwalkers from Central America...
- Lindsay Lohan and the Crash of Fashion - September 24, 2009
- Every time the economy swoons and the racks groan with the weight of unsold women's clothing, purveyors of fashion talk up "investment dressing." Investment dressing...