Single-payer, it works

Firedog KellyCDenver takes control of the other keyboard and works over Led Zepplin’s No Quarter.

You have a marriage the court once said was valid. Your marriage is among those the court said they couldn’t address when upholding Prop 8 (since no one asked them to rule on its validity): a legal marriage performed elsewhere, long before California recognized it, subsequently recognized but not memorialized. And the time of marriage equality has passed.

Research on best practices will make a huge difference in health care costs. So will better choices about treatment at all stages of life.

Afghan women say the way to improve their conditions is to halt support for Karzai and the government of warlords and remove US troops.

As the Republican Party ever-more prominently wraps itself in anti-science attitudes and positions, the scientific community ever more identifies itself with the Democratic Party and as liberals. Recent polling provides a window on this widening gap and suggests a potential avenue for scientists to reinforce the gap between most Americans and the Republican Party.

We have long known that John Ashcroft was not properly read into the illegal domestic surveillance program Senator Whitehouse suggested as much when Attorney General Gonzales testified in July 2007. And both Gonzales and Robert Mueller revealed that John Ashcroft–from his ICU bed–complained that his advisors had not been able to get read into the program and as a result he was ill-informed about the program.

The highly prolific and wonderful author, Charles R, Morris has written 12 books, including the recent New York Times Bestseller, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, which just won the 2009 Loeb Prize for best business book, and its revised paperback version, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown. His book, The Cost of Good Intentions was selected a best book of 1980 by the New York Times. The Coming Global Boom was a New York Times notable book of 1990, and The Tycoons was selected a Barron’s best book of 2005. A lawyer and former banker, Morris’ articles have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly. 

How to under-rate the news in two lessons.

The death of Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, architect of not only the Vietnam War, but of the Defense Department’s role in the nuclear age, offers a useful lens to the present. McNamara is, in a phrase, one of the demons against which American politics has reacted since.