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- 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...
- Canada and France Also Have Health Care Debates - September 22, 2009
- The debate over what kind of health care system we should have often includes the kinds others have. The programs in Canada and France have received special attention,...
- What Americans Really Want Is Health Care Reform - September 17, 2009
- "Obama's Speech Doesn't Turn the Tide," reads an ABC News headline about new poll results on public reaction to the president's address on health care reform. An...
- 'Heads I Win, Tails I'm Bailed Out' - September 15, 2009
- President Obama was on Wall Street, calling for a new regulatory regime to prevent a financial panic like the one set off a year ago. "We will not go back to the days of...
- Health Reform and Illegal Immigration: The Truth - September 10, 2009
- In their tireless efforts to kill health care reform, right-wingers have fanned fears that it would attract illegal aliens. This sideshow is rather twisted because,...
- Holder Should Do Some Remembering - September 8, 2009
- America will soon mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The replays of burning buildings and piercing screams will bring back jagged...
- Cracked Justice Enabled Girl Rape Case - September 3, 2009
- Many astounding details surround the story of the California rapist who kidnapped an 11-year-old and kept her captive for 18 years. None shocks more than the raw fact...
- Failure is Not an Option on Health Care - September 1, 2009
- Flip the calendar pages -- as they do in the old movies to show passage of time -- and stop at Nov. 2, 2010. That will be Election Day. How Congress handles health care...
- The Liberal Lion, With Asterisks - August 27, 2009
- They called him "The Liberal Lion." Ted Kennedy deserved that title, though with some asterisks added. There's no reconciling Kennedy worshippers with the Kennedy...
- Children Should Not Be Props on Reality TV - August 25, 2009
- In the beginning, "Jon & Kate Plus 8" had a sweet charm. The little ones would scamper and shout toddler things, as their harried parents tried to keep order. This...
- Democrats Must Fix Health Care Alone - August 20, 2009
- Early on as New York mayor, Ed Koch went to battle against entrenched interests that were bankrupting the city. The yelling and screaming was such that reporters asked...
- Free-Market Death Panels - August 18, 2009
- "Death panels"? I'll tell you about death panels. My husband faced one some years ago, and it didn't involve any government bureaucrat. It was run by our private...
- Health Reformers Need Not Fear Mob Scenes - August 13, 2009
- Craig Anthony Miller earned brief fame by screaming something about the Constitution in the face of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter. A woman followed with the same...
- Greedy Geezers Are Not Nice People - August 11, 2009
- Let's talk about greedy geezers. The term displeases me because I find the vast majority of older people to be wonderfully generous and concerned for others. But there's...
- No, Red States Are Not Better Than Blue States - August 6, 2009
- In an entertaining but silly political game, partisans score points by comparing statistics of so-called red states and blue states. Conservative Ross Douthat does that...
- Cash for Clunkers Means 'Ca-Ching' for Detroit - August 4, 2009
- This is what I told my friend Frank: Under the "cash for clunkers" program, you could get more money for your '93 Mercury Grand Marquis than it was worth -- up to $4,500...
- Republicans Looking Crazy on Health Care - July 30, 2009
- Some attacks on health care reform are so ludicrous that you don't think they need answering. A recent example invokes an evil plot to save money by knocking off the...
- Pot Could Be Gold for California - July 28, 2009
- The popular TV series "Weeds" is about a widowed suburban mother who deals pot to preserve her family's cushy California dream. Not a few Californians would like to see...
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Health Reform - July 23, 2009
- It's high noon on health care reform. Time to identify the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Let's start with the Bad: Obama's passive leadership. The president didn't want to...
- The Logic of a Locavore - July 21, 2009
- "Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008," read the headline in Mother Jones magazine. You can imagine the snark that followed. It takes no special aim to make fun of...
- Mature Women Want Their Stories on Screen - July 16, 2009
- Back when the boomers were babes, the girls would strut and preen around a stylish health food restaurant in Manhattan. No one took much note of a 70ish woman in comfy...
- Immigration Reform is Quietly Here - July 14, 2009
- One of America's toughest problems is being solved right before our unseeing eyes. As Mark Sanford strayed, Michael Jackson departed and Sarah Palin quit, the Obama...
- Are Latinos Ethnics or a Racial Minority? - July 9, 2009
- Some years ago, I shared cocktails along San Antonio's River Walk with Richard Estrada, the legendary columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Estrada would trace the...
- Cities Are Back -- but for How Long? - July 7, 2009
- Why are cities growing faster than the rest of the country? That's happening and reverses a decade-long trend, according to new U.S. Census figures. Gainers in 2008...