There Is No Higher Claim

During The Financial Crisis And Bailouts Of 2008, It Probably Occurred To Very Few Average People That We Were Entering A Period Of Hardship For Billionaires.

Under The Administration Of George W. Bush, You Will Recall, Federal Spending Grew Pretty Significantly. At The Same Time, The Number Of People Directly Employed By The Federal Government Shrank. One Of The Factors That Explained The Difference Was Contracting.

Liberal That I Am, I Support Health-care Reform On Its Merits Alone. My Liberal Blood Boils, For Example, When I Read That Half Of The Personal Bankruptcies In This Country Are Brought On, In Part, By Medical Expenses.

Financial Regulation Is The Next Item On The Political Horizon, And It Doesn't Have To Be The Deathly Dull Wonk-battle That It Sounds Like. In Fact, If The Democrats Do Their Job, It Can Just As Easily Become A Platform For Addressing The Greatest Issues Of Them All.

There Is Something Uniquely Depressing About The Fact That The National Portrait Gallery’s Version Of The Barack Obama “hope” Poster Previously Belonged To A Pair Of Lobbyists. Depressing Because Mr. Obama’s Washington Was Not Supposed To Be The Lobbyists’ Washington, The Place We Learned To Despise During The Last Administration.