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By Douglass Carmichael There are some issues post election. Can anything change? Or are the Democrats locked in? For the country will then divide between a war party and a peace party, taking the majority of both parties with them.
The Baker Commission is meeting this week, and both [...]

By Harlan Cleveland The murmur is beginning to sound like a roar. The gap between the rich and the rest keeps getting wider. It’s eating into the American conscience. What should, and can, we do about it?
In his blog in this space a few days ago, Nicholas Johnson cited the sudden spurt in CEO [...]

By Jane Alexander The arts have been neglected in the past six years by the outgoing Republican congress. This is both a good thing and a bad. It is good that the demonization of art has been under the radar while our legislators have wrestled with the contentious issues of war, immigration, [...]

By Nicholas Johnson Our university’s departing president, David Skorton, concedes, ‘When the median family income in Iowa is around $45,000 and I make over $300,000, it’s hard to argue that is not a lot of money. It’s very generous.
When I ran for Congress I pledged my personal pay would be set by my constituents’ median [...]

By Gloria Feldt So now President Bush wants to cooperate. Now he wants to reach across the aisle. Now he wants to work together with the Democrats, finally to show he can be that “uniter not divider” of his 2000 campaign promises. That perhaps he isn’t even the sole decider of everything after all. [...]

By Ralph Keyes I recently was invited to submit a statement on world peace to a peace museum in Uzbekistan. This museum’s website makes it seem legitimate. Yet I’m hesitant to respond. Why? Well, suppose it’s actually a Borat wannabe operation hoping I’ll say something they can make part of a joke?

By Douglass Carmichael When I was divorced, in the early nineteen seventies, I read widely about marriage and divorce to try and understand what was happening to me. I found most of it quite unsatisfying and giving me no insight into the turmoil I felt. I came across a pamphlet by the [...]

By Harlan Cleveland To hear Senator Barack Obama say on “Meet the Press” that he was thinking about running for President was not a surprise. It would only have been surprising if he had said it hadn’t occurred to him. What intrigued me was the chorus of punditry that followed. Most [...]