In the Arena

Broder, Ezra and I…

are all in favor of Ron Wyden’s health care plan, according to Broder’s column today…which will probably prove confusing to ideologues. But it is not insignificant when David Broder comes out in favor of a pretty radical plan that would relieve employers of the burden of providing health insurance, provide true universality and mandate that [...]

Coming Home: A Wife’s Battle

Anne Hull and Dana Priest, the extraordinary Washington Post reporters who brought to light how Walter Reed was failing our wounded soldiers, have turned their attention–and ours–to another heartbreaking story about another kind of hero: a young West Virginia wife who is struggling to hold together her family and find her husband the treatment he [...]

In the Arena

The Perils of Arrogance

This is a very good column today by David Ignatius, a reminder of an essential flaw in the Bush Administration’s foreign policy–the neo-colonialist arrogance. One slight correction–if I’m not mistaken, David Kilcullen is already a State Department employee, and that’s a good thing.