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- Unions Aren't the Problem - December 8, 2008
- Creating a viable middle class has been the goal of organized labor since labor first became organized. And it is this goal that was abandoned outright by American...
- Tough Times Demand Bold Action on Health Care - December 3, 2008
- These estimates by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured do not bewilder as much as do the tallies associated with the various federal bailouts and...
- Killer Stampede a Reason for Reflection - December 1, 2008
- The victim was, in fact, a seasonal worker not hired by Wal-Mart but by an employment agency. The crowd had been building overnight at the entrance of the sprawling...
- Our Broken Social Safety Net - November 26, 2008
- This delay may well be the scariest development of these frightening times. What are the reasons for President George W. Bush to have blocked the post-election...
- Celebrating 10 Years of Tobacco Justice - November 24, 2008
- The lawyers survived, and that is a good thing. The settlement they engineered is helping to save millions of lives and billions in health costs. It may well be the...
- The Glass Ceiling Holds Strong - November 19, 2008
- Even if President-elect Barack Obama chooses Clinton as secretary of state, no ground will be broken. Clinton would be the third woman to hold the post. And there...
- Wal-Mart Economy Lays Us All Low - November 17, 2008
- This doesn't depend on whether Congress and the Bush administration manage to rush cash into the coffers of GM and other Detroit automakers. It is not going to be a...
- Soundbites the Least of Bush's Mistakes - November 12, 2008
- Like when he said he would get Osama bin Laden, "dead or alive." Or when he seemed to taunt the insurgents who were emerging in Iraq, by saying "bring 'em on." Or...
- Fixing Afghanistan - November 10, 2008
- With the Iraqis nearing an agreement on a framework for the continued presence of some U.S. forces in their country and an Iraqi government desire to have most...
- Obama Will Not Be Another Carter - November 5, 2008
- That is their image. This is my own: a toddler born during the Carter era, padding around in his diaper, plunking his bottom down on the rug to watch "Sesame...
- The County That Will Change Virginia - November 3, 2008
- The peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains poke up over the horizon as drivers speed along the highways that lead past the airport and through the subdivisions that have...
- Stevens is a Warning to the Democrats - October 29, 2008
- With Stevens, there was a smallness that revealed the larger sense of entitlement so many lawmakers come to possess. "The little things prove the big things,"...
- The Candidates and Their Clothes - October 27, 2008
- Still, I'm glad the great fashion fiasco unfolded because it gives us a chance to talk in the open about what everybody chortles about in semi-private: female...
- Big Donors Still Have Big Influence - October 22, 2008
- But really, who can feel the fierce urgency of now for a candidate who has already broken every fundraising record, and who is outspending his opponent in some...
- Democrats Can't Overreach - October 20, 2008
- "Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933," the Journal's editorial page wrote last week. "In other words, the election...
- Government Must Create Jobs - October 15, 2008
- This is the problem with tax cuts, especially the one-time-only, check-in-the-mail variety that already went out: You can buy whatever you want with the money. That...
- Market Crisis Exposes 401(k)s - October 13, 2008
- It was never sold this way, of course. The pitch for the 401(k) was a contemporary version of the get-rich-quick scheme: The promise of strolling along a...
- The Public Stars in Second Debate - October 8, 2008
- When a presidential debate takes the form of a town hall meeting, with questions posed to the tightly scripted candidates by members of the public, we are never...
- The Party of Atwater - October 6, 2008
- The entire idea was preposterous. Kitty Dukakis had graduated from college in 1963 -- before campuses were convulsed with protests against the Vietnam conflict, let...
- The Palin Predicament - October 1, 2008
- Her mark in history may well turn out to be like that of the Pet Rock, one of those artifacts that has little value except as an object that is dissected for its...
- Convict Bush, McCain and the GOP for the Economy - September 29, 2008
- Were George W. Bush himself in the defendant's chair, this would be one of those cases in which the jury would be sent to the deliberation room and the judge would...
- Debates Reinforce Public Perceptions - September 24, 2008
- Less than a year later, Kennedy would become the first presidential candidate to capitalize on the television age. His youth, his "vigor," the compelling presence he...
- "Ownership Society" Leaves Taxpayers Holding the Bag - September 22, 2008
- Now Bush's "ownership society" has morphed into this: Taxpayers are going to own about $700 billion -- or a trillion, or more -- in bad debts amassed by what were...
- Bankrupt Government Leaves Millions Behind - September 17, 2008
- I hope not. I want Greenspan to be wrong again -- just as he was in 2005 when he said there was no speculative housing bubble but just "froth" in a few local...
- Palin Proves There's Sexism - September 15, 2008
- Try as I might to dismiss the pseudo-outrage that John McCain's campaign has whipped up about Palin's plight as a woman running for high office, I can't. Not completely,...
- McCain, Obama Shouldn't Be at Ground Zero - September 10, 2008
- Yet their decision to visit the site where the Twin Towers once stood is distasteful stagecraft, the sort that a city still striving to recover can probably do...
- Running Against Resentment - September 8, 2008
- If you talk to a Democrat who's been around awhile -- not someone who is reciting talking points for the Obama campaign -- there is a nervousness that feels like the...
- Pro-Choice People Agree, Pregnancy is a Private Matter - September 3, 2008
- President Bush "believes that this is a private family matter," says White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. The talking points circulated at the GOP convention in St....
- Putting Health Care on a Firm Foundation - August 27, 2008
- The headline seems counterintuitive, if not downright baffling: The number of people without insurance dipped in 2007, falling from 47 million to just under 46...
- Clinton's Thankless Job - August 25, 2008
- Clinton can't win Tuesday evening. But then, she knows that. She is set to address the Democratic National Convention in Denver to give the valedictory address of...
- When Will We Notice the Inflation Crisis? - August 20, 2008
- Even Saks, the luxury department store, is suffering a slide in sales and profits. The economic pain is trickling up, a perversely welcome change from the immunity the...
- Time to Change the Debate Moderators - August 18, 2008
- Another tradition is firmly upheld as well: Three white men will be in charge of questioning Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on behalf of millions of...
- Will Congress Finally Pass Tobacco Regulation? - August 13, 2008
- Until, one can hope, right now. Before departing for its August break, the House of Representatives passed the first-ever comprehensive tobacco regulation bill....
- Will Obama Fight the Health Care Fight? - August 11, 2008
- So it is downright shocking that there was a tussle over what the 2008 Democratic platform would say about the party's generations-long, bedrock commitment to health...
- Increase Retirement Age for Social Security - August 4, 2008
- Predictably, this bit of straight talk raised the hackles of the conservative anti-tax lobby -- always antagonistic toward McCain. So McCain switched back to a strict...
- McCain & Obama Should Fight the War Ahead - July 30, 2008
- McCain's incessant crowing about being right about the U.S. military "surge" that has played some part in quieting the violence in Iraq is beginning to come across like...
- Conscience Clause Puts Women at Risk - July 28, 2008
- The draft regulation would redefine abortion to include "any of the various procedures -- including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the...
- Starbucks Culture Takes a Step Back - July 23, 2008
- Starbucks seems to be a place that carries a whiff of excess. In its own way, it has a lot in common with SUVs, hot tubs and television screens wide enough to fill...
- The Need for a New Social Compact - July 21, 2008
- Using taxes as the centerpiece of -- or as a substitute for -- a more comprehensive economic policy is the idea that has dominated Washington since the rise of...
- Our Appalling 9/11 Response - July 16, 2008
- I chuckled out loud at that paragraph in Wax's "Kafka Comes to America," but that is its only humor. The book provides an insider's view of some of the most...