Health care done, get ready for financial reform
As Congress and the White House turn to financial-reform legislation, a new book by Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz provides a good, pragmatic, and readable guide to the issues.
Ted Van Dyk
Ted Van Dyk has been active in national policy and politics since 1961, serving in the White House and State Department and as policy director of several Democratic presidential campaigns. He is auth
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The morning after the historic health-care deal
Obama may see an uptick in his popularity, but will Democrats be able to hold their congressional majority? And how solid were those projections that the reform bill wouldn't add to the federal deficit?
Environment
Two fine examples of American public servants
Paying tribute to Stewart Udall and Liz Carpenter, who died this weekend. Both typified the best of the Kennedy-Johnson cabinets, and both gave all their lives to the public good.
Old forts never die
A visit to what little remains of once-spectacular Fort Ord, California, by one who was trained for war there.
politics
Sally Bagshaw breakfasts with some doubters
A downtown-backed Seattle City Councilmember impresses a group of neighborhood leaders, getting on their wave length by promising openness and independent stances.