The health care bill that the House of Representatives approved Saturday night did two things its sponsors never intended: It …
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Dragging Secret Accounts Into The Open
As I learned back in elementary school, “Secrets, secrets are no fun.” This is especially true when the secrets involve …
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Let Owners Control What They Own
Many mutual fund managers charge investors more than they should. Someone ought to do something about it, but should that …
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Tax The Wind And The Sun
The winter holidays will be upon us before we know it. There will be Christmas trees and menorahs, eggnog and …
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Update: Moderation Carries The Day
Yesterday’s elections were good news for folks who, like me, want to see American politics pushed back toward the center. …
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Defining Progress For Women (And Everyone Else)
In a recent New York Times opinion column, Joanne Lipman, former deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal and …
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Narrow Minds, Small Tent
Republicans hope to launch their return to national power today by obliterating their own candidate in a New York congressional …
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Pent-Up Consumer Demand Meets ‘Zombie Stores’
On a trip to Vermont over Columbus Day weekend, I stopped at my favorite local diner for their signature Cajun …
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How The Cold War Ended, And How It Didn’t End
As a young journalist during the last decade of the Cold War, my one ambition that went unfulfilled was to …
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