Self-Executing Health Care in the House

Many an activist and other members of the liberal left (sorry, conservatives, there’s nothing derogatory about that term you use for us) has torn out his or her hair over apathy on the part of the general public. Why do so few Americans care about inhumanity and injustice? Worse, why do they…

The Supreme Court recently determined that corporations are entitled to freedom of speech because they are legally persons. The ramifications of this decision, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, cannot be overstated:  it introduces an entirely new and untapped population into the…

When Gov. Charlie Crist (R) announced his Senate candidacy, the assumption among political observers was that the race was his to lose. Slowly but steadily, his GOP primary challenger, Marco Rubio, has gained in the polls. According to a new Quinnipiac survey, Crist may now be the…

In between the electoral shakeup in Massachusetts, the Supreme Court effectively putting elected offices up for auction, and the aftershocks in Haiti that were probably caused by Ted Kennedy spinning in his grave, the launching of President Obama’s “Race to the Top” program was barely a…

With all signs pointing to a Democratic loss in the Bay State, Democrats really have only one option for passing health care legislation — and that is for the House to simply pass the Senate bill without amendment. If Scott Brown (R) wins tonight, the Senate is simply no longer in…

I hope that anyone who has not already done so will read Scott Horton’s important piece in Harper’s investigating the cover-up of the 2006 deaths of three Guantanamo detainees, deaths which were publicly reported as suicides. (Or, in the Strangelovian language of the base’s commander, as acts of…

There have long been two prevailing views of education in America. The first is exemplified by John Dewey’s dictum, “Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.” The second can be summed up by a quote from Elwood…

The final PPP poll is out, and it joins a number of other surveys finding GOPer Scott Brown with a modest lead over Democrat Martha Coakley:

“Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 51-46 in our final Massachusetts Senate poll, an advantage that is within the margin of error for the poll.

Over…