If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.
From Timothy Noah
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.
I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
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