During last year's Republican presidential primary season, candidate
Rudy Giuliani succinctly captured what millions of Americans think
about health care abroad. "These countries that say they provide
universal coverage -- they pay a price for it, you know," Giuliani told
his audience. "They do it by rationing care, by long waiting lines, and
by limiting, or I should say eliminating a patient's choice."
Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the New America Foundation, said the UN resolution would represent significant international support for ...
"We agree that [the models] practice good, parsimonious care," said Len
Nichols, a fellow at the New America Foundation. "What they don't show
is that they're giving us the lowest imaginable cost they can get. And
they won't do that until they're forced to."... Original Article
In "The Hawk and the Dove," Nicholas Thompson, an editor at Wired
magazine, skillfully contrasts Nitze and Kennan. Thompson, who is
Nitze's grandson, brings a judicial impartiality to the fierce disputes
that raged between the two men. Thompson has enjoyed full access to his
grandfather's archival documents, but perhaps his most impressive
accomplishment is to have mined Kennan's extensive diaries for new
insights. In this important and astute new study, Nitze emerges as a
Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, called the move "outrageous" at a time when the nation is facing ...
"Apple believes it has a better product with a more closed system," said Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and chairman of public interest group Free Press. "But what may be good for Apple may not be good for innovation, and that is the battle that is going on here, the battle over what the future of the mobile platform will look like." Original article
... the president has backed himself into a corner here," said Marc Goldwein, policy director of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
... strides toward curbing medical spending, largely by grabbing what Len Nichols of the nonpartisan New America Foundation calls the "low-hanging fruit. ...
W. Ralph Eubanks's family memoir tells a double story, one about the past and the other about the author's efforts to uncover it. ...
As Iranians took to the streets to protest a fraudulent election last
month, braving tear gas, batons and bullets, pressure mounted on
President Obama to take a tougher stand against the Islamic Republic's
repression of peaceful dissent. Some said the president's statements
were too soft. Others argued that Obama should refrain from picking
sides, lest he present a pretext for hard-liners to label the
protesters American stooges.
People began to argue: What should Obama do? I'd like them to ask another question: What should ordinary Americans do?
