Given the more immediate fiscal and economic challenges the US faces, I’m still not persuaded that fixing Social Security is among the top 10. (I am pretty sure that controlling health care costs is at least 3 of the...
Read MoreI don’t know if Barack Obama and his political team planned the sequence of events that led to yesterday’s announcement by Obama that he supports same-sex marriage to the degree that Charlie Pierce suggests (and for...
Read MoreI want to elaborate on Michael Tomasky’s excellent post, “The Movement Made Him Do It”, about how we as a country arrived at the point where a sitting president (and one who’s running for re-election)...
Read MoreWell, it’s one of the ways change happens. The Boston Globe’s Brian McGrory has been on a tear for the past 3 weeks, penning (pixeling?) a series of columns notable for their in-depth reporting, damning details and...
Read MoreIf you live in the United States, you have a 1 in 6 chance of being poisoned this year—by something you eat. Chances are it will just be a “stomach bug”, but “too many food poisoning cases are more...
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