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Obama’s No-Brainer on Education
Jonathan Alter 7/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good? Because hundreds of delegates who were at stake are members of Paleolithic teachers unions, ready to pounce on any challenge to the failed system they dominate. When the subject did arise, it quickly became a pander party with President Bush's (and Ted Kennedy's) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) as the piñata.
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McCain's Brain
Jeffrey Bartholet 2/19/2008 12:00:00 AM
John McCain has said that economics "is not something I've understood as well as I should." Perhaps he's just more honest than other candidates, or has a better sense of humor. But the remark-and others that McCain has made on the economy-could get him into political trouble. It is Douglas Holtz-Eakin's job to head that off. Director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005, Holtz-Eakin worked part-time on McCain's 2000 campaign and joined the current effort at the start of 2007 as senior policy adviser on economics and other domestic issues. He recently spoke to NEWSWEEK's Jeffrey Bartholet about the candidate's platform and clarified some of his more controversial statements. Excerpts:
CAMPAIGN 2008
Wrong Paul
Joe Miller 2/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
SummaryRon Paul doesn't have much of a chance of winning the Republican nomination, but he persists with his well-funded campaign and even talks of turning it into a permanent "Revolution" that will continue far beyond 2008.
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Some Facts Don't Fly
Brooks Jackson 1/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
SummaryWith a nationwide wave of nominating contests looming next week, Republican presidential candidates held their last scheduled debate against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan's retired Air Force One. But we found some of the candidates' facts just won't fly.
CAMPAIGN 2008
N.H. Debate: The Dems' Turn
1/6/2008 12:00:00 AM
SummaryDuring the Democratic portion of the Jan. 5 New Hampshire debate:
The $3 Trillion Cop-Out
Robert J. Samuelson
The $3.1 trillion budget submitted last week by President Bush with a projected $407 billion deficit for 2009 reminds us of the huge gap between uplifting political rhetoric—including the rhetoric of this campaign—and the grim realities of governing. Budgets are not just numbers. They express political choices. What should government do and who should pay? The reigning philosophy, practiced by both parties and largely approved by the public, is to evade choices. It is to spend more, tax less and deplore deficits. For most Americans, what matters most are their own tax breaks and government benefits and not the budget's larger effects on society.