The subsidy portion of health reform would cost around a trillion dollars over the next decade. In all the plans currently on the table, this expense would be offset with a combination of cost savings elsewhere and additional taxes, so that there ...

We are expected to hold our breath. Excitement is building. Or not, as the case may be. Will Bob Woodward's latest book bring down or bolster the administration? What are the bets?

Andrew Sullivan quotes a passage about nailing the real torturers. The problem with the pictures of torture, this writer says, is that they tend to stir up rage against the low-level guys doing the torture rather than their more guilty bosses.

Confession:  I missed the speech at West Point last night.  Reading accounts of it this morning, nothing in particular stands out.  Reaction?  Disappointment and ennui.  Does anyone say anything interesting?  Anyone out there offer a fresh...

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Perhaps more a matter of shock for all of us and grateful awe on the part of  the defense industry.  Maybe that's why the market is rising on the morning that Obama is revealed to have "decided to expedite the deployment of 30,000 additional American...

Paying for the continuing war in Afghanistan is roiling Congressional Democrats.  Maybe the moral questions of continuing an unwinnable war -- and yes, for many another unnecessary "war of choice" -- while facing the possibility of setting aside...

Scott Horton describes the British inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to accompany the US in an invasion of Iraq.  Bottom line:  The Chilcot inquiry is bringing to the surface a great deal about the Blair-Bush decision -- not to say...