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.
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The Limits of Indignation
Three widely discussed works are helping to heat up the debate about race again. But the limits of a politics of racial conscience should be all too apparent.
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Why Save the Banks? The Ambivalent Liberal’s Guide to Reform
Liberals may find it difficult to muster sympathy for bankers, but there are compelling reasons to strengthen banking. Reforms should help restore the banks’ profitability, while coupling new powers with stronger supervision to curb abuses.
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The Private Use of Public Life
Last December, a public interest group called the Center for Public Integrity published a unique analysis of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), titled “America’s Frontline Trade Officials.”* The center used a wide variety of government documents, newsletters, press clips, directories, and other sources to piece together the career paths of mid-level and […]
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The Remedy is More Speech
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?