Some commentators have seized on the notion that health care and jobs are competing priorities and that the president made a big mistake in putting health care ahead of jobs In a nutshell they are saying It rsquo s jobs stupid They might have had a point had the president made such a choice

Some onlookers might find it problematic or even scandalous that a group of nuns supported the current health care reform bill whereas the U S Catholic bishops opposed it in pursuit of stronger protections against the possibility of abortion coverage and worried about costs Some news reports seeme

Reading may be a private pleasure, but it is also a social force with global consequences.

nbsp Hindsight isn rsquo t always 20-20 but often it is Now that the Democrats have lost their shot at a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate which is all it ever was really given the two independents and the pack of Blue Dogs they must be flagellating themselves over the obvious Before

With her last-minute bid for a seat in Congress Imelda R Marcos is making yet another comeback The flamboyant Mrs Marcos has made several comebacks over the decades since she stepped down from the stage she occupied for 20 years as First Lady of the Philippines When she and her husband Ferdinan

My mother, the contemplative

Reflections on a transatlantic friendship

The public option is ldquo an option rdquo No one would be forced into it Rather it would be offered along with other choices in what has been called ldquo a health insurance exchange rdquo The benefit of an exchange is that it would allow consumers to compare plans and then to choose for th

The five obstacles to health care reform named in the America editorial of Aug 31-Sept 7 is hardly an exhaustive list Other obstacles keep getting in the way I rsquo ve identified five more below 1 Distrust of government Andrew Kohut president of the PEW Research Center asked rhetorically w