Month: February 2014

It’s not much talked about, but when people lost their jobs in the Great Recession, many of them lost their health insurance. That’s why it’s notable that the percentage of adult uninsured (16%) just reached...

What the Republicans did this week on the debt ceiling was a disgrace, and they were rightly called to the mat for it by Carl Hulse in the New York Times. The House vote to raise the debt limit and stifle the budget wars was...

I don’t have the same dog in the fight that Ed Kilgore does, so maybe that’s why I’m less concerned by Damon Linker’s piece than I am befuddled. You could accurately describe me as a secular liberal who...

Dan Synder promised to never, ever change the nickname of the Washington Redskins, but the other NFL owners might have something to say about that if it puts their tax-exempt status at risk. The Washington Redskins’ name...

Guilty! NEW ORLEANS — Former Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans was found guilty on Wednesday of accepting payoffs for city contracts, becoming the first mayor in the city’s history to be charged and convicted of...