by Isaiah J. Poole | May 16, 2007 | Blog
There's more proof today that America's health care system, far from being what presidential candidate and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson last week called "the absolute best in the world," lags far behind those of other major countries and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 11, 2007 | Blog
The Enron scandal is rearing its ugly head again, and the Securities and Exchange Commission has to decide with whom it will stand: Will it be with small investors who depend on the honest advice of financial advisors or with bankers who, thanks to a recent federal...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
The perversity of conservative failure is that by rendering government incapable or unwilling of doing anything that serves the common good, conservatives have left fewer people willing to trust that government can serve the common good, even when they want it to....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
There was a genteel smackdown between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and William Kristol of The Weekly Standard. But beneath the generally gentlemanly exchange between the two intellectual titans, there were some genuine jaw-droppers from Kristol, who showed...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
When Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, wanted to offer an example of how conservatives have gotten government wrong, he talked about chickens. These are chickens that are carrying a chemical that is used to make plastic forks and...
