Opinions

Republicans’ budgets imply deep cuts in programs helping the poor
That’s left them with one option: deep cuts to programs for the poor. That’s what you see in House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget....
To make a lot of money, be a crony in crony capitalism
If you want to make billions of dollars from deal-making, don’t head to Wall Street....
Better public schools require a stronger safety net. School segregation by class is the norm in the United States
Many American kids are getting a fine education these days, but plenty more are stuck with lousy schools. This disparity shouldn’t come as a shock, because that’s the way our society is designed.Given that nearly half of public-school funding is derived from local property tax revenue, rich kids...
The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America
A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades. ...
Have we really achieved goal one of the Millennium Development Goals?
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Timing of Stop Kony campaign suspicious
As anyone who regularly utilizes the mixed blessing that is social media now knows, an internet campaign to “#stopkony” has exploded in popularity within the last few days....
Starving Iran won’t free it
THERE’S an old saying, attributed to the British Foreign Office in colonial days: “Keep the Persians hungry, and the Arabs fat.” ...
Bill Gates’ suppport of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
First, his technocratic ideology runs counter to the best informed science. The World Bank and United Nations funded 900 scientists over three years in order to create an International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)....
Middle-class welfare state is invisible by design
March 1 (Bloomberg) -- What is a government program? And are you on one right now? Those are the questions Cornell University political scientist Suzanne Mettler has been posing. ...
Money and morals
Lately inequality has re-entered the national conversation. Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on the widening income gap....