On Obamacare, a partywide failure
— April 5, 2017There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care. They came up with a substantively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd fast…
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Skinny, but overweight
— March 29, 2017It’s called a “skinny budget,” because it’s just a president’s blueprint for where the federal money goes, and it doesn’t get into details. Those…
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More are asking: ‘Where is my free cheese?’
— March 29, 2017“Where’s my free cheese?” A few years back I was assigned a story on the distribution of government surplus cheese to people deemed by the government to live in poverty. The cheese…
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What is health-care debate about?
— March 22, 2017What is the point? Is the health-care debate about health care? Or is it about taxes? If the debate over whether and how to eliminate the Affordable Care Act is about how best to provide…
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The battle of Middlebury
— March 15, 2017At Middlebury College earlier this month, Charles Murray needed a safe space — literally. In a significant escalation of the campus speech wars, protesters hooted down the conservative…
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How the GOP crackup happens
— March 29, 2017Less than two weeks after the unveiling of the GOP Obamacare replacement, the party is already staring into the abyss. The bill has had the worst rollout of any major piece of legislation…
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The national illness
— March 22, 2017Many Republican leaders are leery about having their name attached to the GOP’s replacement for Obamacare, a health care overhaul they have demonized since it was passed seven…
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The worst argument for Trumpcare
— March 22, 2017Of all the arguments to make for repealing and replacing Obamacare, the very worst is that people don’t need health insurance. Yet this is a Trump administration talking point….
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