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- Longing for a Middle Class - October 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The challenge of our time is to re-create America as a middle-class nation. The idea does not find voice in the cacophony of the 24-hour news cycle. It has...
- Cold Cash's Long Reach - October 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I don't have a sex scandal for you. The foibles of politicians and celebrities titillate. But ultimately, they have little to do with the most enduring and...
- The Meltdown After the Meltdown - October 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It would be nice to believe that things will be different next time. "What's the point in bailing them out if there aren't any jobs?'' asks one of the...
- A Slippery Slope on Guns - October 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Whatever significance is attached to Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it is of small importance to the rest of the country. More...
- Making Tragedy Out of Farce - October 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Full Employment for Filmmaker Michael Moore Act is coming soon to a theater near you. Well, not exactly. But by exquisite coincidence, Michael Moore...
- Playing Games Amid a Threat - September 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The latest turn in the nation's confrontation with the terrorism comes to us as opera buffa. The scenario would be comic if it were not so unnerving. In...
- Going Red Over Health Care - September 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is "a stunning assault on liberty" (Sen. Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona). It is "trying to force or foist a one-size-fits-all solution on the states"...
- A Clunker, Not a Cadillac - September 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Finally, a health care proposal George W. Bush could love. Well, maybe not love, but certainly like -- especially since the draft plan by Senate Finance...
- The Right Time on Trade - September 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's not the right time. But then, it never is. It was never the right time for federal regulators pry into Wall Street's mysterious derivatives and other...
- Government Health Care Works - September 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Now that everyone in politics has concluded that the "public option" is about to be very publicly dropped from health overhaul legislation, perhaps it is...
- A 9/11 Debt Still Unpaid - September 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The first "shift" that John Feal worked at the smoldering labyrinth of fallen buildings at Ground Zero lasted 43 hours. Over the next few days -- until...
- Our Wallets Get Emptier - September 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It isn't all in our heads. Americans did not balk at buying back-to-school clothes, or forgo a Labor Day weekend trip, or refuse to invest in a new...
- Cheney Plays to His Own Crowd - September 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In politics as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, former Vice President Dick Cheney's most recent and thoroughly...
- Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan - September 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We will never forget, say the bumper stickers, which often bear the image of the smoking Twin Towers superimposed across the red and white stripes of the...
- The Eternal Flame - August 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Ten summers ago, for reasons I do not now recall, I asked Ted Kennedy's office to provide an account of key legislation he had sponsored in what already...
- Status Quo is Not An Option - August 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The summer of disinformation seems to have accomplished its goal: to preserve for the private insurance industry an effective monopoly over how much most...
- Of Guns and Appeasement - August 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We won't have to cope with delusional believers in nonexistent "death panels" stalking those health care town hall meetings much longer, not with...
- Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera - August 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I missed the hot fun this summer. While much of America seemed to be screeching over the incredible -- in the truest sense of the word -- notion that angry...
- The Marvel That is Medicare - July 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Happy Birthday, Medicare. It's a fine time -- perfect, in fact -- to celebrate the government-run, taxpayer-supported colossus in the American health care...
- A Rebound Without Recovery - July 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So is there good news, or bad? Are we poised for an economic rebound or are we perched on the edge of another unnerving cycle in which Wall Street analysts...
- Health Reform Mustn't Hinge On Deadlines - July 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's not yet time to say that the political debate over this year's effort at health insurance reform has reached its low, since we're sure to hear more...
- When Media and Trust Were One - July 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- That's not the way it is -- not now, and not for a long time. Remembering Walter Cronkite means recalling when there really was a media figure who was...
- Reflection No Longer An Option - July 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is the damned spot that simply will not go out. The legacy of the Bush administration's antiterrorism tactics cannot be washed away in a tide of...
- Empathy Beyond the Beltway - July 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The sound and the fury at Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings signify almost nothing. Yet they still tell us almost everything we need to know about...
- The Unemployed Will Roar - July 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When a virulent disease is ravaging you like a cancer, you don't want a cacophony of voices promoting different or contradictory cures. Yet that is what...
- Like Hillary, Sarah Faces Media Sexism - July 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As Donald Rumsfeld might put it, there is only one known known in the tsunami of speculation touched off by Sarah Palin's announcement that she's stepping...
- Reaping What We've Sown - July 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It hardly seems worth mentioning that the search for role models of sexual rectitude has gone pretty badly lately. That famous poster of Farrah Fawcett --...
- Still Needing U.S. Glue in Iraq - June 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As the media trumpets sound for the pullback of American troops from urban areas in Iraq, the essential lesson of our involvement must be recalled: Nothing...
- Poster Addict for Tobacco Law - June 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's all right to be just a bit defensive when you're the addict in chief. "You just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being...
- America's Past, On Youtube To Boot - June 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The price at the gas pump has been ticking up and unemployment is tightening its grip. Pay cuts, salary freezes and furloughs strangle the wallet. The easy...
- Why Patch-And-Fill Won't Do - June 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- You can't get there from here. Not if there is defined as health insurance coverage for everyone in the United States, lower costs for the millions of...
- Guns and the Link We Won't Admit - June 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There are without a doubt links among the extremists who have murdered three Pittsburgh police officers, gunned down a doctor who performed abortions in...
- When Appearances Count - June 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The appearance of extreme political impropriety, the Supreme Court has decided, is sometimes just too extreme. The circumstances of West Virginia's chief...
- Outrage -- And Business as Usual - June 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A culprit is required. This is an iron rule of Washington policy malfunctions and political malfeasance. It may be that Angelo Mozilo, the former chief of...
- What Rhetoric Won't Cure - June 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be smoothed over with a speech. This is the lesson the Obama administration must learn from it. Since Tiller was...
- Health Care's Pulse Fading - June 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So it's health care overhaul this year -- or bust. If this is the bet, right now I'd put my money on bust. President Obama's urgency on bringing...
- A Justice for Us All - May 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor, a woman and a proud Puerto Rican, is going to be a Supreme Court justice for the majority of us. The talking points repeated with numbing...
- Packing Heat in Parks - May 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Hiking boots, check. Sunscreen, check. Water bottles, check. Guns, clips, ammo. Check, check, check. It's enough to make you sick before you've grilled a...
- A Chance to Avert Tragedy - May 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So now we know that pilots responsible for the safety of about a quarter of the flying public rest up for duty by catching a few winks in an airport...
- A Truth Commission Beckons - May 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The partisan firefight over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's incendiary allegation that the CIA lied to Congress about its use of "enhanced interrogation...