Victory on health care will be a triumph of the partisan culture that President Obama pledged to defeat.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Bipartisan health care reform is an absurdity. Demand that your elected officials pass a strong public option that rivals Ted Kennedy's vision of a single-payer system.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The real colorful dream of this country is not about a mythical Camelot but a real land of second-chances, a land of reinvention and fresh opportunity.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
Kennedy was as much of a progressive force as this rotten system allows. With his wealth, he could've easily been a Republican and pushed for perks for the rich. Instead, he championed the powerless.
William Bradley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Though a most imperfect man, Ted Kennedy made his choice over a life of ease, and America is much the better for it.
Robert Creamer | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
It would be fitting if Sen. Kennedy's passing itself served to refocus the health care debate on the moral principle that lies at its center.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
To win the health care debate with the public, the prejudices of thirty years of conditioning must be undone.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.
Alex Higgins | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Opposition to health care reform is just the latest iteration of the usually unstated idea that public welfare itself is a devious system for taking money from whites and giving it to blacks.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
Earth Days, the new film that opens this weekend from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, is being promoted as a history of the environmental movement in the United States. But it's more of a road trip, really.
Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
When Obama meets with President Hu next month, he should emulate one of his predecessors -- in fact one he has spoken of admiringly before -- and say something that could change history.
Robert Creamer | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
The Republicans and the Right Wing establishment will continue to ignore reality, to repeat their slogans, to pander to fear, and stand up for wealthy special interests. But history has rendered its verdict.
Mark Joseph | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
Every night, Chris Matthews raises race as the reason President Obama is encountering so much opposition. But he's wrong. And though he may not intend it, he's the one who is injecting race into these debates.
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Ronald Reagan turned out to be wrong. Most of us are so happy, in our sunset years, to have access to Medicare, and yes, we are still free.
Bill Mann | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
Reagan is among those disgusted and appalled with Limbaugh and other poisonous talk-show ideologues referring to President Obama as a "modern-day Hitler."
Shawn Healy | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Given the alignment of stars in Sotomayor's strive for the Supremes, her sterling resume made confirmation all but inevitable.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
Corporate honchos at GE and News Corp making back-room editorial decisions for the "news" subsidiaries they control? I can't help but think it might not be the best thing for the integrity of journalism.
Cedric Perrier | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Perhaps what America is observing is political opportunism in its freshest form. We see this a great deal in the new order of the entertainment industry: fame without responsibility.
Bob Burnett | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
California's problems are not insurmountable, but their resolution will require concerted action: new leadership, likely a new constitution, and the willingness to consider alternative revenue sources.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy
Obama and Gates drank purely foreign libations while Crowley's choice, Blue Moon, is, like Obama, only half American. Is this really the message we need to convey as our economy struggles to climb out of recession?
Shannyn Moore | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
As an Alaskan who has trapped and hunted, the aerial killing of animals is to hunting what hiring a hooker is to dating. A sure thing, with no work. No wonder it appealed to former governor Palin.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.
Bill Schneider | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics