Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.