Word: democraticizing
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Minorities in China Recently it seems to have become fashionable to criticize China as a country of injustice and repression [War in the West, July 20]. Of course, Chinese internal policy often contradicts Western democratic ideals, but we must not forget that millions of Han Chinese are facing the very...
The pressures of partisanship have forced other contortions. It seems obvious that the cost of malpractice insurance cripples doctors - and drives up the number of tests and procedures they perform in order to bulletproof themselves against lawsuits. Obama has said he is open to malpractice reform, but congressional Democrats haven...
That in-and-out attitude is frustrating Hutchison's would-be Senate successors, both Democrats and Republicans, who are chomping at the bit to get a definite step-down date from her. (Special elections in Texas are always a roll of the dice; Hutchison herself first won election to the...
Obama has gotten this far in part because he has put off the thorniest questions of who should pay and how big a role government should have. These, he says, are the issues that deepen "some long-standing ideological divisions in our Congress and, frankly, in our society." They are...
Obama was struck by the advantages LBJ had that he doesn't: Johnson was just coming off a landslide election victory and had bigger Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill, where individual members were not nearly as independent of their party leaders as they are now. Nor was the Republican Party...