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Why Obama Won't Be Able to Reform Wall Street The president tried to appeal to Wall Street's better angels, reminding its power players that they didn't have to wait for Congress to pass new laws ... they could just start acting nicer on their own. It was shockingly naïve. READ MORE
With person after person I met on my book tour, I came to see that our memories aren't really patchy; they're patchworks, randomly retrieved bits and scraps that we weave together into something different.
There's a lot there for a thoughtful, conservative critique of Obama. But that's not where the conversation is going right now -- it's all about the shiny black object.
Max Baucus has gutted health reform yet brings zero Republican votes to the table and zero savings to American taxpayers.
The ultimate irony of Beck, Dobbs and Rush is that they couch in populist rhetoric a message that is anti-populist, designed to protect the swindle at the core of our media system's failure.
My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.
It is so easy in our current political environment to forget that GDP, the unemployment rate, the income tax burden -- a whole slew of measurements -- are freighted with judgments.
Women have replaced the prison of the kitchen with the prison of an unachievable body shape. The more powerful a woman is, the more likely she is to be bulimic.
Here's why the Senate Finance markup that will come out next week is nowhere close to what will be in the final legislation.
The Wall Street Journal reported that economic inequality was never really a problem, and even if it is we no longer have to worry about it. These conclusions are just plain wrong.
Obama is way too smart not to know that calling Kanye West a jackass on a live feed monitored by several rabidly competitive reporters would not get reported by someone.
Latinos are increasingly making the connection between racism in the media and discrimination in their hometowns and concluding that Lou Dobbs is the most dangerous man for Latinos in America.
The government should surely honor our fallen war heroes, but erecting a massive, stand-alone symbol of Christian faith is not the way to do it.
I wonder whether there's a growing disconnect between how we define macro-prosperity with how it shows up in our micro-lives -- and what kind of psychological damage that does to us.
Today's schools are an anachronism. They resemble the assembly lines of the industrial era, when they were conceived. But the School of One turns the current model of education on its head.
Minus the "Good riddance," I'd have to agree, at least with the proposition that newspapers lost track of their core customer. But don't stop with newspapers. It's true about most media.
Death is essentially a taboo topic in public debates, and serious discussion about terminal illness and death has been almost completely lacking in the recent health care debates.
Doug Kreps sees a benefit in using brokers and advisors who engage in active management because of the discipline they bring to the investment process. The data is quite to the contrary.
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