Elizabeth Rosenthal as been burning up the pages of the New York Times with her series on the high cost of health care in the United States. I mentioned her July 1 article on the high cost of childbirth in…
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American expatriate writer James Baldwin was in Paris when the French lost at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in 1954. He wrote the following observation in his 1972 book/essay No Name in the Street: The French were still hopelessly slugging…
Mitt Romney's campaign slogan, as repeated for the umpteenth time in last night's New Hampshire debate, is, "We're becoming more like Europe!" On so many fronts, one can only wish that were true. Former Madison, Wisconsin, mayor Dave Cieslewicz explains…
My friend LK compares the United States and Germany on wages. Short version: the German middle class gets better wages and better work hours than we do. The Germans get more from less---ah, German efficiency. On that note, I turn…