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Speaking as part of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center’s Theodore H. White Lecture, Branch used the media’s role in the scandals of the Clinton administration to demonstrate the need for journalistic reform. He said that he sees the Monica Lewinsky scandal as a symptom of the breakdown of the process...
...kept out of a House debate that lasted a mere 12 hours: Will a government-run public option be among the choices offered to the uninsured? Should individuals be required to buy health insurance, and businesses to provide it to their workers? Who should have to pay for health reform? How much should be squeezed from Medicare, with the attendant risk of outraging seniors? The House fight over abortion guarantees a repeat in the Senate, where conservatives are demanding a similar airtight ban on the use of federal funds to pay for the procedure, and liberals are vowing to stop...
...coming bumps, a health-reform bill is starting to become inevitable, if only because of the consequences of falling short. Obama's presidency, even more than Clinton's, may depend on the Democrats' ability to deliver on his biggest domestic priority. And if anyone needed a reminder why, there could hardly have been a more poignant one than the appearance of the Ghost of Failures Past...
...painful irony of the black jails is that they sprang up after an earlier effort by Beijing to reform the national detention system. In 2003 a migrant worker in Guangzhou named Sun Zhigang was beaten to death while in police custody. Sun, who had been stopped for not carrying his temporary-residence certificate, was detained under a system known as "custody and repatriation." That system, a series of detention centers as well as the legal framework to hold people on administrative charges, was used to round up vagrants, beggars and petitioners...
...China slowly develops a better-funded and more reliable social-security system for retirees - which it has begun - the economic necessity of generations living together will diminish a bit. But no one believes that as China gets richer, the cultural norm will shift too significantly. (See 10 health care-reform...