Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.