Slurs against groups may be painful, but suppressing speech is not the answer.
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Civility and Its Discontents
You are a college president facing a student accused of scrawling racial epithets on campus. Should you expel him?
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The Pragmatic Road Toward National Health Insurance
The politically plausible path to universal coverage is an approach that builds on employer-provided health coverage, caps costs, and stringently regulates insurers.
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The Fractured Family
Some observers are celebrating post-modern families as a positive break from the traditional form. Others are calling for a restoration. Are those our only choices?
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Why America Will Adopt Comprehensive Health Care Reform
As costs rise and incremental reforms fail, the chances increase for a comprehensive, single-payer system of national health insurance.
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Unhealthy Rations
Oregon’s plan to ration care of the poor has won favorable reviews around the country. But take a closer look.
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Democratic Engagement:Bringing Populism and Liberalism Together
Long wary of each other, populism and liberalism could benefit from each other’s strengths.
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Constitutional Mischief: What’s Wrong with Term Limitations
How to fill legislatures with the old, the rich, and the bought.
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The Middle Class and National Health Reform
With the recent flurry of proposals for universal health insurance, including a new plan submitted on June 5 by Majority Leader George Mitchell on behalf of the Senate Democratic leadership, a struggle that began three-quarters of a century ago in the United States entered another phase. Four times — in the Progressive Era, during the […]
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Ideas, Yes; Assaults, No
The First Amendment protects the exchange of ideas, not verbal assaults.