Why the failure of the Paycheck Fairness Act this week can’t be ignored.Â
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The Most Expensive Health Care In the World
The revelations about individual doctors charging Medicare millions of dollars show why American health care is so expensive, and point to one easy policy change we could make to reign things in.
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Why Reading Globally Matters
The case for breaking our parochial American reading habits.
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Why Clinton’s Gender Problem Will Not Be Like Obama’s Race Problem
Sexism in public rhetoric is still tolerated in a way racism isn’t, and that could have a profound impact on 2016.
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Daily Meme: Yep, He’s Toast
There’s nothing so satisfying as a good dose of political schadenfreude, which is being served up on a platter this week by Louisiana Representative Vance McAllister. Grainy images of McAllister locked in a passionate embrace with Melissa Hixon Peacock, a married aide, last December are making the rounds online. Peacock’s husband, Heath, is fueling the […]
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The End of the “Ick Factor”
Now even politicians as religiously motivated as Mike Huckabee have to claim they don’t care what anybody does in the bedroom.
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Fetal Abnormalities: The Next Minefield in the Abortion Wars?
Conscience clauses are just the beginning—genetic counselors are on a collision course with state-level abortion politics.Â
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Thrown to the Lions
Liberals can’t understand why conservative Christians feel oppressed by modern society, but there are good reasons.
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Daily Meme: Democrats, Republicans, and What Women Want
The question of how to treat women in the workplace has been tripping up America for years. Dolly Parton probably said it best in her 1980 hit, “9 To 5”: “Workin’ 9 to 5/What a way to make a livin’/Barely gettin’ by/It’s all takin’ and no givin’ /They just use your mind/And they never give […]
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Pencils Out
The Prospect speaks with an education-policy expert Linda Darling-Hammond about standardized testing in the implementation of Common Core, a national set of guidelines on math and reading.
