Elizabeth Warren’s financing scheme for her Medicare for All plan is a dud. But her challenge about alternatives should be taken up.
Category Archives: International and national
Grijalva invents a fossil fuel bogeyman
Notebook: Fossil fuel lobbyists aren’t the ones pushing for uranium mining. And why would Arizona substitute new solar for existing nuclear power? That’s nuts.
Impeachment terrain becomes tricker for Republicans
The revised process House Democrats adopted is fair enough. Now Republicans have to answer tough questions about what Trump did.
Are Democrats serious about impeachment?
If the goal is to create a broader consensus in favor of removing Trump, this isn’t the way to go about it.
The tax that Democrats dare not name
A European-style social welfare system will require a European-style value-added tax.
Russia is now in the Middle East snake pit
Trump’s erratic actions in Syria have increased Russia’s position. But is that a gain or a headache?
Quid pro quo or not, what Trump did was wrong
The defense of Trump’s Ukrainian call misses a larger point, as does the whitewash of the unseemly situation with the Bidens in the country.
As Obamacare stabilizes, GOP still doesn’t have a clue
Obamacare isn’t what was envisioned. But Republicans don’t have a credible alternative to Democratic proposals for ever greater government involvement in health care.
Biggs’ contracts a case of TDDS
Biggs is right that Democrats are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. But Biggs has come down with a case of Trump Derangement Derangement Syndrome.
Empty congressional posturing about Turkey and the Kurds
The monumental difference between being a member of Congress and commander in chief.