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Healthcare spending in 2009 rose to $2.5 trillion, a global summit on climate change came and went, and, a year out of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, we still aren’t regulating derivatives. Nothing got done...
Last year was supposed to be the most transformative year in American public life since the sixties. Far reaching legislation seemed assured. Economic recovery, healthcare reform, a cap on carbon emissions, and financial regulation. What a difference a year makes. A failure to get any of these things done is blamed in part on dithering, undisciplined Democrats and their leader, Barack Obama. They’ve got 59 votes, and yet it’s as if the Republicans are in firm control of the legislative branch. Liberal pundits panicked and turned on their own. Too much hope, not enough...
...with a flurry of withering attacks, all of which signal a tactical shift: after months of painting their opponents as obstructionists willing to sacrifice critical legislation for electoral gain, Democrats are now tripping over themselves to juxtapose their ideas with a substantive Republican policy proposal. Still, the blows have done little but burnish Ryan's reputation. His was the first name out of Sarah Palin's mouth when the Tea Party queen was asked to handicap the field of GOP presidential candidates, and the conservative punditry hailed Ryan as a "one-man refutation to the idea that Republicans...
...borrow your way out of [debt]. It's just that unsustainable. The sooner we acknowledge that, the better off everybody's going to be. That's why we have to get out of this political mess we're in, where everybody demagogues each other and nothing gets done because people are afraid to tackle these challenges...
...find art books because, spokeswoman Kanchi Mehta says, "We wanted to start a cultural institution where people come to hang out, eat and talk, not just look at the art and leave." Items on display aren't limited to fine art. The current show, "Her Work Is Never Done," runs until March 20 (and again from March 26 to April 17) and features hats from milliner Shilpa Chavan, home products from graphic designer Divya Thakur and animated films by award-winning director Gitanjali Rao. "People still think of Indian art in terms of [venerable painter] M.F. Husain. We want...