Relief Seen for Jobless and States in Health Care Plan

(The New York Times)WASHINGTON — The stimulus bill working its way through Congress is not just a package of spending increases and tax cuts intended to jolt the nation out of recession. For Democrats, it is also a tool for rewriting the social contract with the poor, the uninsured and the unemployed, in ways [...]

Boomers Versus the Rest

(Newsweek) Obama says he doesn’t want to mortgage our children’s future. If he means it, he’ll have to cut retirees’ Social Security and Medicare benefits. Who wins? Probably no political platitude is more invoked or more ignored than this: let’s do it for the kids. Everyone recognizes the moral power of making sacrifices today for [...]