An exchange including Gerald Friedman, Kenneth Thorpe, and Paul Starr over the costs, resulting taxes, and political implications of Sanders’s health plan
The Editors
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Prospect Debate: Should We Fight ISIS?
An exchange over whether the United States should try to press the fight against the Islamic State or abandon it entirely.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Prospect Debate: The Illusion of a Minority Majority America
Four knowledgeable commentators respond to Richard Alba’s argument in the Prospect that America will continue to have a white majority.
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Daily Meme: The Immigration Merry-Go-Round
Round and round she goes…
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Daily Meme: The Immigration Merry-Go-Round
It’s been about a year-329 days, to be precise-since the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration-reform bill, but it seems we’re no closer to seeing it become law now than we were then. Care to take a ride on the immigration merry-go-round? House Speaker John Boehner swears no one wants to see immigration reform get done […]
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Daily Meme: Paging Doctor Rove
In a move reminiscent of the Terry Schiavo episode-in which Senator Bill Frist, the Tennessee Republican, assumed the power to diagnose people via television-right-wing strategist Karl Rove is spending his time on the speaker circuit telling people Hillary Clinton might have brain damage. Why, pray tell? After suffering from a blood clot in 2012 that […]
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Daily Meme: Is the Obamacare Tantrum Finally Over?
Sometimes, the best thing to do with a child throwing a tantrum is to let them have it and wait for them to wear themselves out. Could the GOP-after voting to repeal Obamacare more than 50 times-have finally grown tired of its own screams? For the first time in quite some time, Republicans’ congressional calendar […]
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Daily Meme: Monica Lewinsky Tells All (Again)
Online editors and traffic-watchers across the country jumped for joy today when Vanity Fair published a teaser of Monica Lewinsky’s tell-all piece in its latest issue, due out later this week. Here’s the money quote: “Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual […]
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Daily Meme: The Court’s Faux Colorblindness
“A blinkered view of race in America won out in the Supreme Court on Tuesday when six justices agreed, for various reasons, to allow Michigan voters to ban race-conscious admissions policies in higher education … ” So starts the New York Times‘s righteous take-down of today’s Supreme Court ruling in Schuette v. BAMN, in which […]
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Daily Meme: Must. Kill. Obamacare.
Despite the invincible conviction on the right that Obamacare is a disaster and that Americans are losing their health insurance, a newly released Gallup poll shows the number of people without insurance has declined to 15.6 percent-its lowest level since 2008. The rate of uninsured dropped among all age groups, but the Affordable Care Act […]