Stimulate the Economy by Mending Our Safety Nets
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 6th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Stimulate the Economy by Mending Our Safety Nets
Lots of talk this week about the proposed stimulus. One high priority ought to be the most vulnerable members of our society. The safety net created in the 1930s to protect Americans from extreme poverty is in tatters. Now that…
Obama’s Middle East Burden–and Opportunity
Longtime State Department Middle East specialist Aaron David Miller on the outlook there, and the test for Obama: Despite efforts to sound reassuring during the campaign, the new administration will have to be tough, much tougher than either Bill Clinton…
Kristol Unclear
William Kristol’s penchant for certainty fails him this morning. Here are a few sentences from his NYT column, helpfully annotated by me: “Israel could well succeed in Gaza….the Israeli leadership seems aware of the mistakes — political, strategic and military…