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Emerging from under the rock that he calls "spring leave," Sandel discussed moral dilemmas similar to those presented in his course Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice." Urging people to engage their moral convictions in evaluating policy, Sandel instructed those in attendance "to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument...
There are lots of conflicting answers to that question, from partisan rancor to internal Democratic politics to Reid's own electoral weakness. But the one thing everyone agrees upon is that Reid's announcement could have been handled better - so that the primary message coming out of the whiplash moves...
Yet, as a candidate, Obama was never very specific about those policy ideas and was scarcely tested by the media. Once in the White House, faced with a towering heap of problems, cosseted by a Democratic majority and confronted by a hostile Republican crowd, Obama cast his lot with a...
Given the history of the past year, and the last 20 years, that is not going to be easy. A Democratic plan to force a series of politically challenging votes for Republicans, rather than concentrate on passing legislation, will not warm things up. And a recent White House meeting about...
The $15 billion bill would be the first in a series of smaller jobs measures Reid plans to roll out in the place of a single overarching one. The idea is to force Republicans to take a series of tough votes against generally popular measures like the tax cuts, extension...