The Thing Now Is To Seem Concerned

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.

I Think There's Great Potential For Autonomy, But We Have To Remember That We Live In A World Where People May Have Free Will But Have Not Invented Their Circumstances.

Back In The Days When The Market Was A Kind Of Secular God And All The World Thrilled To Behold The Amazing Powers Of Private Capital, The Idea Of Privatizing Highways And Airports And Other Bits Of Our Transportation Infrastructure Made A Certain Kind Of Sense.

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.

Journalism Has A Special, Hallowed Place For Stories Of Its Practitioners' Persecution.