Related Articles: Distorting McCain's Remarks

• Stealth Nationalization

  Daniel Gross 7/31/2009 12:00:00 AM

  The truth is, we have a system today that works well for the insurance industry, but it doesn't always work well for you," President Barack Obama said recently, making his case for health care reform. But it turns out the current arrangement, through which employers are supposed to buy coverage from large insurance firms and enlist their employees to cover the costs, isn't working so well for the insurance industry, either. In fact, the system by which insurance coverage is tied to payroll jobs is a huge problem—especially in a period when Americans are less likely to have payroll jobs than they have been in the recent past and when employers are less likely to cover the costs of that insurance. A look at the earnings reports and stock prices of big insurance companies reveals that tying insurance to employment probably isn't a good idea, after all—unless the employer happens to be the government.

• The Recession Is Over

  Daniel Gross 7/25/2009 12:00:00 AM

  In Westport, Mass., about 60 miles southwest of Boston, traffic crawls along Route 6 as drivers make their way to the nearby Atlantic beaches like Horseneck or Baker's. A 10-worker crew pouring and raking asphalt onto the road slows their progress. It's the kind of small annoyance drivers nationwide face each summer. It's also one small manifestation of President Barack Obama's ambitious strategy for jump-starting the economy.

• Are You Feeling ‘Stimulated’ Yet?

  Daniel Gross 7/9/2009 12:00:00 AM

  Even before it was signed into law, President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package was denounced as both too big (mostly by the right) and too small (mostly by the left) to succeed. Now, a mere five months later, it's being declared a failure across the political spectrum.

• PROJECT GREEN

  Why It’s Time for a ‘Green New Deal’

  Christopher Dickey 11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

  In rented offices on a quiet side street in Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower, analysts for the International Energy Agency spend long days and nights crunching numbers about oil production and greenhouse-gas emissions. They're the staid, sober global accountants who watch over the power supply for the 30 rich countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and their many reports are dry and technical. But lately, the group's pronouncements have taken on more ominous overtones. With a sense of urgency bordering on desperation, the IEA has begun calling for radical changes in the way the world drives its cars, its factories and, indeed, the global economy. This month the agency will issue a collection of comprehensive reports declaring that "a global revolution is needed in ways that energy is supplied and used."

• FACTCHECK.ORG

  Distorting the DHL Deal

  Joe Miller 8/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

  There's at least some truth in both ads: German-based DHL announced a deal that could result in 8,200 lost jobs in Wilmington, Ohio. And McCain did in fact oppose an amendment that would have kept DHL from buying Wilmington-based Airborne Express. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, was also a DHL lobbyist charged with easing the merger through the Senate.

• PERISCOPE

  Campaign Diplomacy: Why America May Take A Harder Line Against Russia

  For seven years George W. Bush heaped praise on Vladimir Putin, saying that he had looked into the Russian president's soul and liked what he saw. That was before clashes over U.S. plans to expand NATO's reach into former Soviet territory put some distance between Bush and his "good friend" and provoked talk of a new cold war. Now, as Bush prepares to step down, all of his potential successors are preparing an even harder line on Putin's Russia.

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