Obamacare: No Friends in Free-Market, Single-Payer Camps
It's the president of the free-market-minded Galen Institute versus a pediatrician/activist for a single-payer system in spirited debate on improving American health care.
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Obama’s Vow to Cut Oil Imports Sounds Familiar
President Barack Obama sounds like his predecessors when he vows to kick the nation's addiction to foreign oil.
GOP Examines Ways to Block Health Care Reform
Partisan opponents of last year's omnibus health care reform in the U.S. have a multitude of legislative tactics they can summon to keep the law from taking effect.
Obama’s Sputnik Analogy Still on the Pad
Looking to goose American participation in science, math and technology, President Obama's "Sputnik moment" lacks the urgency and clarity of the original.
Washington’s Abortive Scientific Renaissance
The new administration was expected to usher in a new era of scientific learning infusing government policy. It hasn't exactly worked out that way.
Political Tar Is Sticky — Ask Our Muslim President
Hammering on how a candidate seems different from a voter opens the door for smears to adhere.
Oil Spill Outlines the Limits of Government
If Americans don't want the dubious comforts of a full-fledged nanny state, then they can't come running for comprehensive succor when some milk, or oil, spills.
Unconscious Bias Amplifies Anti-Obama Rhetoric
New research finds unconscious racial bias makes anti-Obama rhetoric seem more persuasive.
Obama Has Gone Contest Crazy
The White House is using competition as a soft-power method to drive change from offices to schools to statehouses and beyond.
Launching Pad: Obama Gives Space Plans Some Gravity
President Obama visited Cape Canaveral to address his critics and clarify his canceling of the Constellation program meant to send Americans back to the moon, and his vision for the future of space exploration.