Monthly Archives: August 2009

Here’s what I think might be happening with the health care debate in the United States. The Obama administration figured out early on that a “public option” and “co-ops” could be, in some ways, quite similar. One way of looking at it is that a good co-op system would be better than a bad public […]

Bob Herbert has the definite analysis and commentary on the Gates-Crowley incident in “Anger Has Its Place“: The very first lesson that should be drawn from the encounter between Mr. Gates and the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley, is that Professor Gates did absolutely nothing wrong. He did not swear at the officer or threaten […]