For the past several weeks, big guns from Hillary Clinton’s policy-wonk hit squad have been firing away at Bernie Sanders’ proposals for faster, fairer growth. Promoting themselves as defenders of “responsible arithmetic,” four former chief economic advisers to Clinton and…
ISIS War: The Case for Cut-and-Run
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In the Post-Paris debate on what the US should now do in Iraq and Syria, there is one important option missing: leave. Despite some testy rhetoric, most of the President’s critics are urging him to do more of what…
Collateral Damage in Afghanistan: America’s Soul
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On the night of October 3, 2015 an American attack helicopter bombed and strafed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. At least 22 medical staff and patients, including three children, were killed. Twenty-four are still missing. The U.N.…
Bernie Sanders: A Moment of Truth for Democrats
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The politicians, plutocrats and pundits of the Democratic Party establishment have no answer to Bernie Sanders’ blistering critique of their failure to defend the interests of the voters who have kept them in power. Neither have they a substantive case…
Breaking News: The Rich Discover Inequality
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After forty years of rising income and wealth inequality, some of America’s rich seem worried that maybe things have gone too far. In a recent New York Times Op Ed (August 9), for example, Peter Georgescu, CEO emeritus of the…
Why Republicans Oppose the Iran Agreement: Follow the Money
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By any sensible measure, our country’s highest foreign policy priority is halting the spread of nuclear weapons. Given our size and military might, we Americans are safe from outside invasion for as far into the future as anyone can possible…
This Greek Tragedy Could Be Europe’s As Well
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However the Greeks vote on Sunday, they are likely to be in for another round of suffering. If they support their government by voting “no” (probably the wiser vote), it is likely to force Greece to abandon the euro for…
TPP Panic; Playing the China Card
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Stung by the sudden derailment in the House of Representatives of the rush to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership, the Washington establishment has wasted no time in warning us of the menace of a rising China should the trade deal…
Why Are We In The Middle East?
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To placate their pique at his effort to get a non-proliferation agreement with Iran, Barack Obama met last Thursday at Camp David with Saudi royals and leaders of the other five feudal dictatorships of the Persian Gulf. He reaffirmed the…
TPP: Obama’s Folly
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Barack Obama’s petulant criticism last Friday of Democrats who do not support his proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership reminds me of the old tongue-in-cheek advice to young lawyers: “If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is…