To Comfort The Afflicted
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
GOP Agenda: Institutionalizing Poverty
BY BOB BEARDEN
The GOP field of dreams gets fuller and fuller. It is now approaching overload both in number and the content of their...
More To State Budget Than Meets Eye
Second of Three Parts
BY JOE DORMAN
It is the time of year when many watch with anticipation what will be proposed in the most impactful...
Gingrich Is Right: Double Medical Research Budget
BY FROMA HARROP Newt Gingrich recently recalled the bipartisan deal that doubled the budget for the National Institutes of Health – with fondness. This was about 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans under Gingrich had just taken over Congress. Never a member of the Gingrich fan club, I nonetheless join other […]
We Have A Choice
BY JOHN THOMPSON
The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is the latest supporter of school reform to acknowledge that the market-driven movement has peaked. He then cites...
Camel’s Nose
BY DAVID PERRYMAN
The 1957 Soviet Sputnik launch came as a shock to many Americans. Only 40 years after the Bolsheviks assassinated Tsar Nicholas and...