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...shareholder in banks, taking stock in exchange for the capital injection. The government would essentially become a passive investor. It wouldn't take any board seats, and it wouldn't actively seek to influence how the banks were being run. It doesn't have to; Treasury has regulatory control over the banking system anyway. Harvey has proposed that the government set up an investment vehicle similar to the Resolution Trust Corporation that rode to the rescue following the savings-and-loan crisis in the 1980s...
...mortality crisis is magnified by the fact that it's a crisis that can be solved. One of the largest contributors to maternal deaths in the developing world is unintended pregnancy. More than 200 million women would like to limit childbearing but have no access to safe, effective birth control. This results in 70 million to 80 million unintended pregnancies every year. Public-health experts estimate that almost half of all maternal deaths could be averted by universal access to contraceptives. The U.S., which should lead the way, has instead placed more roadblocks in the way of poor women...
Until now, anyway. The governor's comedian doppelgänger has essentially taken control of Public Sarah Palin: the composite of images, biography and attitudes that stands in for the actual person in voters' minds. Every politician creates a public self--with the assistance, wanted or not, of the media--and a good one is invaluable. If you make a gaffe on foreign policy but Public You is a foreign policy expert, the slip is not a story...
Back-to-back weeks of domination have left the Democrats in control of their destiny. It will take a slew of Obama errors, an outside event favoring McCain and an outsize racial-voting pattern for McCain to get back in contention...
...these 21st century anxieties--anxieties about changes from outside America that seem beyond average Americans' control--that represent the Republicans' best shot at unhorsing Obama now. In March, Pew found that 56% of high school--educated white voters see newcomers as threatening, compared with less than a third of those with a college degree. White voters who haven't graduated from college, according to a Pew poll in September, were more than twice as likely to think Obama is Muslim as those who have. And not coincidentally, it is among these less educated white voters that McCain is strongest. Among...