Jeff Spross

Ezra Klein lists the ways the Affordable Care Act pushes Medicare toward smarter and more efficient ways of buying health care, then notes Paul Ryan’s plan does none of that. It simply “appeals to people who have an ideological take on health-care reform and believe we can make Medicare cheaper by handing it over to […]

Having slammed Paul Ryan‘s budget in a previous piece, David Frum now tries to list what he likes about it. Not an unworthy exercise, but it’s worth noting that a lot of Frum’s positive points assume we’ll eventually fold Ryan’s plan into the structure laid down by health-care reform. Frum praises Ryan’s plan for abandoning […]

Here’s Rand Paul (via Matt Welch) saying Clinton was preferable to Bush: Imagine this—what if there had never been a President George W. Bush, and when Bill Clinton left office he was immediately replaced with Barack Obama. Now imagine Obama had governed from 2000 to 2008 exactly as Bush did–doubling the size of government, doubling […]

Now that we have the names of the six witnesses who will appear at Peter King’s hearings this week on radicalization within the American Muslim community, a few observations can be made. First, the people on the list — and more specifically the people not on it — embody a chronicle of sorts of the […]

After months of diplomatic yeoman’s work by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — and in particular Special Representative to the Middle East George J. Mitchell — Washington appears to have successfully brokered a new round of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Scheduled to begin Sept. 1, and to involve face-to-face discussion between Benjamin Netanyahu […]

With the departure of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, all United States combat troops have now left Iraq. However, with 50,000 U.S. troops still in the country for training purposes, American liberals remain suspicious of whether this milestone is worth celebrating — or whether the final departure date for all U.S. troops in […]