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- Mom's Dreary Retirement Prospects - May 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Not to ruin brunch, but Mom's probably not doing very well. Not if she's already retired, not if she's a baby boomer approaching retirement, not if she's a...
- What Did the Media See in Edwards? - May 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I never understood John Edwards' appeal. I therefore do not expect that Elizabeth Edwards' new book, or the tiresome media blitz accompanying its...
- Double Flipping of 'Identity Politics' - May 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In my nearly two decades of covering New York's irrepressible Alfonse M. D'Amato, agreement between us was, to put it politely, rare. Yet there was one...
- Decline of the Middle Skilled - April 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- This is how it ends. Or at least, this is how the latest, sad chapter in a story that has been ending for three decades is written. If Chrysler survives,...
- Model for Accounting - April 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- His interest, President Barack Obama says, is "the achievement of a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts." His topic was the delicate question...
- 'Reform' With No Reform - April 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Every so often, I remember Ronald Reagan fondly -- not for his policies but for his skill at the art of persuasion. Right now, for example, I'd like to...
- Lifetime Tenure Undeserved - April 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were allowed to leave office undisturbed by anything but their limited capacities for pangs of conscience over the morally...
- The Truth About Taxes and Spending - April 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There's nothing like tax-filing season to remind Americans that the only things certain in life are death and taxes -- or that few public outcries...
- Wrong Road to a Recovery - April 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If you listened closely, you could hear the country exhale these past few weeks as Americans opened their 401(k) statements and began to believe they might...
- Words Must Have Meaning - April 8, 2009
- Now that he is home, Obama has to show that his words have meaning. He must immediately reverse his own inexplicable support for the Bush administration's...
- Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women - April 1, 2009
- That was then. This is now: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has just signed a law that forces women to obey their husbands' sexual demands, keeps women from leaving...
- With 'Friends' Like These - March 30, 2009
- A Specter vote for the Employee Free Choice Act, organized labor's top legislative goal, was needed to break the expected filibuster by his fellow Republicans. ...
- When Science Loses Out - March 25, 2009
- It was done, of course, at the behest of anti-abortion zealots who consider many commonly used birth control methods as equivalent to terminating a pregnancy. When...
- A Veto Threat's Recuperative Power - March 23, 2009
- Since the firestorm over the bonuses began burning up the airwaves, Obama has managed to take all sides of the issue. He did it again on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday,...
- The More Things Stay the Same - March 18, 2009
- Contracts that secured "retention" bonuses for the same wizards who engineered the flimsy financial products that helped bring down the world economy went to 73...
- Tobacco's Reckoning Day - March 16, 2009
- Is this a fantasy? It's a genuine possibility with comprehensive federal regulation of the tobacco industry. An idea that seems to have been on the drawing...
- Our Diminshed Futures - March 11, 2009
- And at this point, we need to confront an elemental truth: No Wall Street rally can obscure the scary historical prospect that most Americans now working can expect...
- The Danger of a Confused Message - March 9, 2009
- A favorite of the MTV crowd, the stunning and successful Rihanna now is a symbol of the ubiquity of domestic violence -- and the dangerously confused message that...
- Chipper on the Hill - March 4, 2009
- "It's a completely different world since we last met here," she told a gathering of journalists and bloggers over breakfast in her office this week. "We are very...
- Medicare Advantage was Neither - March 2, 2009
- For years, public and private studies of Medicare HMOs -- euphemistically called "Medicare Advantage" -- have shown that the program run by the insurance industry...
- Obama Sounds Clintonian - February 25, 2009
- Obama explained in his speech Tuesday night that the newly enacted stimulus package is a temporary but necessary measure to jolt the economy and slow the...
- The Problem is Health Care, Not Entitlements - February 23, 2009
- People bought the propaganda -- at least until an irresponsible consumer credit binge, rapacious banks and rampant speculation began bankrupting the country and...
- How Will Obama Fight the Terrorists? - February 18, 2009
- That is nearly $100 billion more than the economic stimulus package President Obama signed into law on Tuesday. Republicans, who expressed sudden and sanctimonious...
- Middle Class Still Needs Payday Help - February 16, 2009
- The rock-bottom line of the economic crisis isn't that people took out mortgages they couldn't pay while shady brokers and rapacious financiers were all too happy to...
- Obama Needs to Be a Hands-On Leader - February 11, 2009
- "What is your goal? What is the intention? What is the purpose of all this?" an incredulous Dodd asked. "We are talking in denominations that are daunting." And...
- Change Happens When Women Lead - February 9, 2009
- The cheerless truth is that Ginsburg's ill health brings to mind her unique position. She is the only female justice, and has been since Sandra Day O'Connor left the...
- It's Going to Get Worse for Wall Street Execs - February 4, 2009
- She wasn't referring only to the news media. She meant the whole, hyperventilating media-political complex of reporters, television shouters, members of Congress,...
- Daschle is Indefensible - February 2, 2009
- Rush Limbaugh now has the talking points of his most fevered right-wing dreams. Obama's problems are bigger than Rush. With the Daschle nomination and the...
- Stimulus Plan Brings Real Relief - January 28, 2009
- What a relief. After eight years of trickle-down tax cuts that pushed the prosperous up and left most everyday Americans sliding further down, the stimulus bill...
- Terrorists Aren't Too Difficult to Try in the U.S. - January 26, 2009
- Now Obama has ordered that the Guantanamo prison be closed. His executive order contemplates three fates for the roughly 245 prisoners still held there. One is to...
- Don't Reach Out to the Right - January 21, 2009
- Few analysts believe the perilous economic situation will improve anytime soon. The consensus is that we aren't to expect anything resembling a return to economic...
- A Legacy of Disaster - January 19, 2009
- Bush's campaign catchphrase in 2000 was that he would restore "honor and dignity" to the White House after the ethical imbroglios of the Clinton era. It was a cruel...
- Feds Should Fully Finance Inauguration - January 14, 2009
- First we force financially strapped municipal and state governments -- particularly the District of Columbia's -- to pay enormous costs for security, transportation...
- Solis the Right Fit at Labor - January 12, 2009
- The power of Solis' potential lies not only in the elevation of the Labor Department under a new Democratic administration. It is in her blood. The daughter of...
- Obama Shouldn't Cave to the Right on Tax Cuts - January 7, 2009
- This tally doesn't include the one-time tax "rebate" that went to 130 million households last spring, part of a stimulus package that was supposed to keep the...
- Blagojevich's Fun Farce - January 5, 2009
- Democrats dutifully wring their hands over the political fix the ethically challenged Blagojevich has created in naming Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate seat...
- Peace Breaking Out All Over - December 31, 2008
- The lens through which most in the United States view the question of war and peace, security or insecurity, is narrow: Are American servicemen and women at risk?...
- Few Women Involved in Wall Steet's Mistakes - December 17, 2008
- If you can't come up with any, it's probably not because you haven't been captivated -- and enraged -- by the drama of corporate chieftains shifting uncomfortably...
- GOP's War on Unions Already Underway - December 15, 2008
- Senate Republicans' effort to break the United Auto Workers union as the pound of flesh they wanted in exchange for loans to teetering automakers -- companies that...
- Even a Kennedy Should Earn the Title - December 9, 2008
- As a longtime admirer of Sen. Ted Kennedy, I am embarrassed. The iconic Massachusetts senator and others in the family are actively promoting John F. Kennedy's...