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National Journal Inequality and Its Perils
Emerging research suggests that the growing gap between rich and poor harms the U.S. economy by creating instability and suppressing growth.
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Don’t Treat the Sick If They're Poor
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Ban Gasoline
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National Journal You, Inc.
Emerging "solopreneurs" are developing their own personal brands and finding success in a wired economy.
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Dying Wishes: The Challenge and the Tragedy of End-of-Life Care
Gobs of Medicare dollars are spent at the very end of life. But often, less is more.
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Escaping ICU Hell
Gobs of Medicare dollars are spent at the very end of life. But often, less is more.
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Reversing White Flight
Even if vouchers don't improve schools, they will almost certainly improve neighborhoods
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Letting Go of My Father
His elderly father insisted that he could manage by himself. But he couldn’t. The author found himself utterly unprepared for one of life’s near certainties—the decline of a parent. Millions of middle-aged Americans, he discovered, are silently struggling to cope with a crisis that needs to be plucked from the realm of the personal and brought into full public view.
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Not Bombing Iran
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Post-Partisanship
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Electro-Shock Therapy
With the Chevy Volt, General Motors—battered, struggling for profitability, fed up with being eclipsed by Toyota and the Prius—is out to reinvent the automobile, and itself.
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Mr. Conservative
John McCain hasn’t betrayed conservatism; his party has.
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Partisan Retreat
Our inevitable withdrawal from Iraq could poison American politics for a generation.
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“This Is Not Charity”
How Bill Clinton, Ira Magaziner, and a team of management consultants are creating new markets, reinventing philanthropy—and trying to save the world
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The Candidates' Four Detention Camps
Deciding what to do with jihadist operatives is the country's most urgent legal question. But there's little sign that the presidential candidates have given it much thought.
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Flying Blind in a Red-Tape Blizzard
Based on spending, President Bush appears to be the biggest regulator since the Nixon-Ford years.
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Campaign Seasoning
Why early primaries will make for a better president
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A Simpler, Better Immigration Plan
Writing a perfect immigration bill is impossible, but writing a better one than the Senate's is a piece of cake.
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Staunch or Deluded? Bush Is Both
Where President Bush appears to be kidding himself is not about the military situation in Iraq but the political situation at home.
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Turning Lights Down, and Profits Up
To listen to many environmentalists talk, you would assume that capitalism is the enemy of conservation. They should visit Pratt & Whitney's turbine module factory.
