KRUGMAN: GOP willing to let debt calamity happen
Is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.
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SOWELL: Today’s question: Is democracy viable?
Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric.
BROOKS: GOP is missing chance at political victory
If the Republican Party were a normal party, it would take advantage of this amazing moment.
STOSSEL: The rising tide of independents in politics
Maybe the human spirit is so powerful it will overcome the stupidity of politics.
DOWD: Sing out, Hillary, about rights of Saudi women
It would have been thrilling if Hillary 2011 had simply channeled Hillary 1995, when, as first lady, she made her bodacious speech in Beijing, declaring that “women’s rights are human rights.”
VAUGHN: Privatization punishes many, rewards few
The only winners in this game are the attorneys and bureaucrats who make, and often end up breaking, the deals.
WOUDENBERG: Feds don’t call all shots on Medicaid
The states are free to exclude a provider from its Medicaid program for any reason provided under state law.
EARLY: Loudly singing praises of education reform
Vince Lombardi would want Bennett and Daniels on his team. These two bold leaders refused to quit on our kids.
SHELLA: Print’s decline is bad for this news junkie
I appreciate the fact that a team of people go through a day’s worth of information and try to prioritize it for me.
KETZENBERGER: Polarizing politics paralyzes public policy
If we’re not careful with this increasingly all-or-nothing mentality, we’ll find ourselves living with tumbleweeds and dirt streets.
GARCIA: Demonize one minority, demonize them all
Reasonable politicians begin their descent into hell as they look away while others within their constituency have their civil rights eroded.
HUDNUT: Nordstrom loss is setback … and opportunity
When I first heard about the downtown Nordstrom store closing, of course I was disappointed.
CAMPBELL: Let’s hear more trees falling in Indianapolis
The campaigns for these new developments were essentially commercials for all these nice and livable communities outside the city.
BOEHM: Mayor’s touch is key to IPS improvement
We are at risk of … bad outcomes from the way we choose the top leadership of our school systems.
DOWD: More camels’ noses getting under the wheel
The prince made a point of hiring a woman, born in the holy city of Mecca, and training her to be the pilot of his private jet.
DOUTHAT: Rising stars Rand, Rubio diverge on priorities
For the first time in a decade, it seems, the Republican Party doesn’t know where it stands on foreign policy.
NOCERA: The miraculous Glass-Steagall banking law
It was amazingly radical, not just for its time, but for any time; it didn’t so much reform banking as upend it.
SOWELL: Too many Americans dodge today’s realities
Someone needs to say to those who want Social Security and Medicare to continue on unchanged: “Don’t you understand? The money is not there any more.”
STOSSEL: Puerto Rico’s lessons for cutting spending
[Gov.] Fortuno’s predecessors had grown Puerto Rico’s government to the point that the state employed one out of every three workers. By the time he was elected, Puerto Rico was broke.
FARGO: Taking government transparency up a notch
The Internet has changed our expectations about the availability of information. We now expect information to be at our fingertips when we want it.