BY FROMA HARROP A camel, the old saying goes, is a horse made by committee. We don’t want camel health reform. We don’t want Washington lawmakers debating whether it should have one hump or two. We want a horse – a sleek machine that performs with efficiency. One may prefer that landmark legislation enjoy wide bipartisan support. That’s the ideal. But the health-care system has too many moving parts to allow for much ideological tinkering, […]

FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA The Schott Foundation for Public Education, which tracks the educational progress of black males, issued its most recent report...

FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA From the time when President Bush took office to now, the cost of a family health insurance premium has gone...

BY NORM ROURKE Watching Feed The Children trucks unloading boxes of food in Wilmington, OH, while people waited in line, broke my heart and made...