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Denying Health Care to Americans is Un-American
Critical issues demand high levels of dialogue that political debate seldom provides. For instance, the profound legislative step forward of health care reform has been pounded with shallow, misleading attacks. There may be honest questions about plan’s specifics, but they don’t justify the vituperative distortions its critics have flung about so irresponsibly.
School Lunch Victory
Thanks to the tireless efforts of thousands of people who are working hard to get America’s schools to serve healthier food, including First Lady Michelle Obama, the $4.5 billion “Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act 2010” prevailed in the lame-duck session of Congress. The new law marks a key step toward potentially transforming the food served in America’s public schools.
Monumental Wilderness
Environmentalists are ready to defend our country’s coastlines and wild places from a new Congress with the same old energy policy: Drill, baby, drill.
Invertebrate President
Well, the Democrats are finally showing some fight. They’re fighting with each other, but it’s a start.
The Hammer Gets Nailed
For once, I actually agree with something that with Tom DeLay said. The former Republican leader of Congress recently declared in his most somber tone, “The criminalization of politics undermines our very system.” Wow, so true, Tommy.
College Ain’t What it Used to Be
Casino developers have to plunk down a lot of their own chips these days. Few researchers doubt that risk-taking is hard-wired into a slew of human brains, but at what point does over saturation cause the developer to lose his shirt?
Spineless
The Lineup: Week of December 6-13, 2010
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Marc Morial addresses school funding inequality and Chuck Collins looks at how Congress might spend the $700 billion in potential revenue from letting Bush’s tax cuts for the richest Americans expire. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
A $700 Billion Dilemma
How would you spend $700 billion? Congress has to decide this month.
Public School Funding: Separate and Skewed
With all the talk about firing “underperforming” teachers, closing the achievement gap, and adopting “common core standards” for students, too many experts are missing a basic source of America’s education woes: the inherently unequal and unfair system for funding public schools within each of the 50 states.
