Business once seemed a potential ally in national health reform. Then it turned around and became instrumental in reform’s defeat. The inside story of what happened and why.
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Hidden Kingdom: Disney’s Political Blueprint
Walt Disney dubbed one of his attractions the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), but the name might better describe his design for private government.
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The Contract and the Consumer
The conservatives haven’t made “tort reform” a crusade to stop a flood of products liability litigation. There is no such flood. This is a straight payoff to their benefactors.
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Our NAIRU Limit: The Governing Myth of Economic Policy
It’s now a familiar story: The Fed raises interest rates to slow the economy. But new research suggests that we are needlessly sacrificing prosperity on the altar of false economic assumptions.
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Gingrich’s Time Bomb: The Consequences of the Contract
Did anyone read the fine print? The Contract with America has been devilishly constructed with provisions that will set off a fiscal — and social — explosion years from now.
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Behind the Numbers: Class Dismissed?
The Democrats have hinged their political strategy upon the empirically shaky notion that most Americans consider themselves middle class. The consequences are not just rhetorical.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
What Happened to Health Care Reform?
Republicans killed it. The White House strategy misfired. Reformers couldn’t unite. The center failed. And the moment was lost.
Posted inEducation in America
The New School Wars: How Outcome-Based Education Blew Up
It seemed like a conservative idea; then progressive educators got hold of it. Now a firestorm has erupted that could jeopardize the effort to raise national curriculum standards.
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Do Poor Women Have a Right to Bear Children?
The current movement to reform welfare implies an uncomfortable thought: Perhaps poor women don’t have the right to bear children. Are we really prepared to say that?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Cracking Open the IQ Box
The Bell Curve has given genetic determinism new currency, but the science on which it rests is even less persuasive today than it was a century ago.
