Mistakes, After All, Are Endemic To Foreign

Veteran Print Editors And Reporters At Places Like The 'times' And 'the New Yorker' Manage To Feed And Clothe Their Families Without Costing Their Companies A Million Bucks A Month, And They Produce A Great Deal More Valuable Reporting And Analysis Than The Network News Stars Do.

Ironically, Tendency To Ignore Inconvenient Facts And Unwelcome Evidence Is Actually President Reagan's True Legacy, As I Noted In 'the Nation' Back In 2000, Before The Current Right-wing Mania For President Reagan Gained Its Full Force.

Over One In Five American Children Is Living In Poverty, And The Number Is Rising.

So Was It A Political Mistake For Obama To Put So Many Eggs In The Health-care-reform Basket? Well, A Negative Decision From The Supreme Court Will Certainly Make It Appear So.

Obama, Like Carter, Is Reacting To Warning Signs By Seeking To Split The Difference Between Dispirited Democrats And Increasingly Radicalized Republicans.