Real health care reform is the thing we've fought for from the start. It is desperately needed. But this bill falls short on many levels, and hurts many people more than it helps them.
Now we know -- universal health care coverage may lead to a reduction in the abortion rate, confirming what many have long suspected but have never before been able to prove in the United States.
President Obama is today negotiating for his political life. The pundits claim he is "all-in" on the health care bill, and that its defeat would be the practical end to his presidency. So here's a pop-quiz.
Whatever the short-term headlines and polls, there's a long-term cost to a party that's been so consistently on the wrong side of reform and reality. Over time, today's Republicans are tomorrow's Whigs.
The HAMP mortgage modification plan only delays foreclosure for distressed homeowners -- but doesn't prevent it -- and these families wind up wasting their mortgage payments while Treasury remains mum.
Alabama republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson, like many junior politicians, has a difficult campaign ahead of him.
We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health care debate. To say the process hasn't been pretty would be one of the biggest Washington understatements in years.
At least in the short term, we should think of carbon pricing as a funding mechanism for clean energy policies. It's a form of responsible budgeting: nothing more, nothing less.
Sometimes it feels more like we're playing a game of "Health Care Chutes and Ladders" -- climbing forward one day, slipping back the next -- but we're getting near the top of the board.
The American people deserve a full accounting of the Bush administration's disastrous economic policies that got us into this mess so that we can understand what not to do going forward.
The Tea Party movement has emerged as a "party" of platitudes rather than of policies, a group united by fury rather than a unifying philosophy. So how should Liberals communicate with them?
After a largely disappointing first year for the administration's peace efforts in the Middle East, the latest U.S.-Israel crisis presents a unique opportunity to recalibrate American efforts for Arab-Israeli peace.
The problem of God-language in the public square is much deeper than the Pledge of Allegiance or the national motto, In God We Trust.
Far from contributing to the fight against terrorism, profiling reduces security by alienating some of the very communities who serve as sources of intelligence.
With billions of tax dollars on the line, it is far past time for agencies to suspend and debar bad actors and for agency managers to aggressively enforce this process.
Clearly, Texas is controlled by un-American elements that are utterly insane -- even if what they're doing fits right in with the current truth-denying direction of American conservatism.
A year ago, Ron Paul (R-Texas) lectured on what it took to be a true conservative. If you don't like parts of the constitution -- just amend it: "I would like to remove two of them. The 16th and 17th" amendments, Paul said.
Turning public school social studies classes into unabashed propaganda sessions goes beyond mere political ugliness. It is craven. It is foolish. It is madness.
People keep wondering who's going to be the Martin Luther King of the gay rights movement, and that I still don't know, but I think yesterday's actions may have put us one step closer to finding our Malcolm X.
