In this piece from NPR’s On The Media, Nate Silver (of 538) discusses the framing of the health care reform debate by both sides. It’s worth a listen but not entirely compelling radio (if Bob Garfield or Brooke Gladstone had been there, maybe the story’d be different).
There was, however, an idea towards the end that [...]
david brooks’ column this week lays out neatly the feelings i and many others have about what’s going on in the country.
brooks sounds like the classic cynic — he wants to believe humans can be more, but he’s seen too much evidence to the contrary. in this way, he serves as the perfect bridge [...]
I had the brief pleasure of meeting Rick Santelli when I toured the Chicago Board of Trade last year as part of an advanced economics reporting class at the Medill School of Journalism. I was much more of a neophyte to financial wizardry then, and had trouble keeping up with the mile-a-minute mind of Santelli. [...]
the los angeles times has an article today on Lockheed Martin’s efforts to lobby the Obama administration to purchase more F-22 raptors:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jets11-2009feb11,0,165351.story
the argument for doing so, according to Lockheed’s general manager, is that these jobs are “shovel ready,” which is a chichi way people now describe a project that has everything but the funding (or logic?) to [...]
this week’s new yorker has an interesting look at the prospect of health care reform in the US.
revealing in his look at the historical roots of other industrialized nations (Great Britain, France and Switzerland), author and surgeon Atul Gawande shows that most health care systems result from circumstance rather than some inherent quality of decency [...]
charlie rose has a great interview with rahm emanuel, obama’s chief of staff and chief of staff under Clinton, revealing some of the differences between Obama and Clinton, and just how confident and prescient Obama is in his dealigs with congress:
this is one of the best parts of the weekend: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec08/sgyear_12-26.html
now normally, david brooks of the new york times is sitting in michael gerson’s chair, but gerson, a presidential historian, is a fine substitute.
shields and brooks obviously admire and respect one another, and their disagreements always give off more light than heat. if you only have [...]
