Articles filed under Commentary
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Killing business on federal basesMay 08, 2014 5:01 am - The fight over the minimum wage, which President Obama and Democrats hope to make a centerpiece of this year's midterm elections, comes down to two simple arguments. Oba...
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Leading out against capital punishmentMay 08, 2014 5:01 am - The term "moral suasion" has fallen into disuse. Its heyday came during the Eisenhower administration when the genial president, a bit soft on institutional racism, fail...
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The justices and the scramble for cashMay 07, 2014 5:01 am - Many trends in American politics and government today make me worry about the health of our representative democracy. These include the decline of Congress as a powerful...
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The enduring benefits of vaccinationMay 07, 2014 5:01 am - Recently I wrote about a type of scientific denialism - often practiced by religious people - that cheats children out of the wonders of modern cosmology and encourages ...
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Preserving our role as a nation of innovatorsMay 06, 2014 5:01 am - "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper." T.S. Eliot wrote in The Hollow Men. It may not be quite so dramatic, but to those in our nation's s...
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Ennui and self-loathing in This TownMay 04, 2014 5:01 am - This is the time when Americans renew their hatred of Washington and Washington wallows in a bittersweet cocktail of self-love and self-loathing. Which is to say, this i...
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Enough grumbling, demand action on taxesMay 02, 2014 5:01 am - Another Tax Day has passed without much conversation about how to make our tax system fairer for working families or small businesses. We mostly heard a collective grumb...
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An education challenge for GOPMay 01, 2014 5:01 am - In one of the lower policy points during the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Rick Santorum told a Tea Party group, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in Ame...
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Dealing with scandalous behavior before it becomes a scandalApr 30, 2014 11:00 pm - Donald Sterling's apparent racism isn't exactly a purely suburban story, but with the Bulls in the playoffs — temporarily, sadly — and his story reverberating constantly...
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Hamas' outrageous charterApr 30, 2014 5:01 am - Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day has passed. But then, as far as I'm concerned, it is always Holocaust Remembrance Day - a perpetual and frustratingly futile attempt t...