Month: July 2007

After six-and-a-half miserable years, it is hard to tally up the worst abuses of the Bush administration. Narrow the field, and focus only on abuses related to the economy. That’s the universe of all the favors that the Bush-Cheney cabal has done for Big Business, so it is still a very competitive contest. A case…

Michael Moore’s extraordinary SiCKO makes the case for a single-payer national health insurance system — a Medicare for All — without bogging down in detailed policy debates. Sure, there’s quite a bit of data that Moore sneaks in, but SiCKO’s basic approach is to rely on regular people telling stories about their healthcare experiences. In…