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...result has been a transition unlike any other, a virtual co-presidency whose continuities include a shared commitment to fiscal stimulus on an unprecedented scale. Obama's tacit collaboration with an unpopular predecessor offers the strongest evidence yet of his sincerity in wanting to change the brutish tone of official Washington. It's a safe bet his ride to Capitol Hill will be far more civil than the ghastly Hoover-Roosevelt procession. And that's change we can all believe...
...progress, including the abolition of slavery and women’s equality. But ever since the late 1970s—when the IRS declined to grant tax-free status to fundamentalist Bob Jones University—many evangelical leaders have become increasingly conservative in their political demands. As a result, in recent years, “religious” has become synonymous with the aims of a few influential leaders in the Republican Party...
...healthcare and literacy. Poverty remains widespread, education limited, and free speech censored; barges still head from Havana to Miami, not the other way around. After the 1990s reforms, Cuba has a dual economy where those who cannot access currency convertible into U.S. dollars cannot afford basic necessities. As a result, incentives are so perverted that one can see women with Ph.Ds driving 1960s vintage cabs in Havana because that is the only way to afford toothpaste and shampoo...
...avoids a fight with Republicans in the senate. Instead, Democrats like Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Kent Conrad have been critical of the bill. Obama wants a bill passed with 80 votes, clear bipartisan support, but that vision has shrunk the bill, rendering it much less effective. As a result, Obama risks alienating his Democratic base. Many Democratic senators have shown clear disapproval about the plan’s size and its emphasis on business tax cuts as opposed to government spending. Obama’s admirable vision of bipartisanship should not come before what is best for the American...
...states blank checks, lavishing the most cash on the ones that do the most driving and paving, actually mandating that federal officials "shall in no way infringe on the sovereign rights of the states to determine which projects shall be federally financed." It's our money, their choices. The result is that Congress does a terrific job of spreading dollars around the country like peanut butter but a lousy job of identifying or promoting national priorities. "There's no performance measures, no environmental or economic analysis," says the Brookings Institution's Robert Puentes. "It's just about dividing...