To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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Free Community College Tuition Should Just Be The Start

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BY FROMA HARROP It’s good that many Republicans have joined Democrats in declaring the growth of economic inequality a problem. And some are even looking to solutions beyond making the rich richer through tax cuts. As we’ve seen, rising stock prices do not necessarily lead to jobs – for Americans, that is. The crumbling of […]

Stop Making Excuses For Nonvoting Millennials

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BY FROMA HARROP The recent economic crisis hit the American middle class hard. But for the youngest adults trying to gain a foothold in the good life, it’s been devastating. So why did so few millennials, the huge cohort of 18- to 29-year-olds, vote last November? Only 21% bothered. Let’s dispense with the excuse that […]

Play Time Is Over For ObamaCare’s Foes

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BY FROMA HARROP Friends of ObamaCare, horrified that the Supreme Court has taken a case that could blow up the federal health insurance exchanges, should recalibrate their dread. While the health reforms were safely humming along, there was little political price for demanding their demise. Thanks to the Supreme Court, now there is. Years of […]

Forty-Two Years Later

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH It has been 42 years since the United States Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that the right to decide whether to go forward with a pregnancy, prior to viability, belongs to a woman, in consultation with her doctors. Forty-two years of marches and debates and occasional, horrible violence later, Roe […]

The Money Primary

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Will she or won’t she? She will. And by the time she does, she will have raised more money than any primary contender in history. Just a guess. In theory, under the new rules, the fact that Hillary Clinton has locked up 99% of the big Democratic money [OK, maybe just a […]