SHORT TAKES J. Peter Nixon Slow Down on Single Payer DEMOCRATS SHOULDN'T MAKE PROMISES THEY CAN'T KEEP Apolitical party is forced to embrace increasingly extreme and unrealistic policy positions...
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SHORT TAKES J. Peter Nixon Steady Pulse OBAMACARE IS WORKING, FOR NOW The fall of 2013 was—to put it mildly—a difficult time for the architects of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama...
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SHORT TAKE J. Peter Nixon Alternative Medicine GETTING TO THE RIGHT OF OBAMACARE The disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has revived Republicans' hope of repealing the law. It's...
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SHORT TAKES J. Peter Nixon Health Scare OBAMACARE IS DOWN BUT NOT OUT It wasn't supposed to be like this. After more than half a century of effort, the Democratic Party finally realized its goal...
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J. Peter Nixon Wedged Apart What’s the Matter with White People? Joan Walsh Wiley, $25.95, 288 pp. In 2008, Barack Obama won the largest share of the electorate of any Democratic presidential...
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J. Peter Nixon Ignatius for the Perplexed The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything A Spirituality for Real Life James Martin, SJ HarperOne, $26.99, 432 pp. Every so often someone sends me one...
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Short Takes J. Peter Nixon When Bigger Is Better HOW NOT TO ARGUE AGAINST HEALTH-CARE REFORM The Catholic bishops of the United States have historically been a strong voice in favor of...
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Finally, Sullivan is right to remind us that government efforts to protect religious freedom can, through the constraining definitions they employ and the boundaries they impose, subtly...
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.7. Peter Nixon Catholic Politicians FOR GOD OR COUNTRY? I n 2004, it was hard for Catholics to read a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing debates about their political...
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