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...challenges facing our leaders in Washington, none is more difficult or urgent than the long-term, structural budget deficits resulting from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. These programs are useful and well-intentioned: They form the bedrock of the American social safety net. Important as they are, however, they have also become exorbitantly expensive...
...success of any significant cuts to nuclear arsenals - and those procedures must be agreed on by both countries in advance. The greatest obstacle to the arms-control progress may be convincing decision makers on both sides that banishing the ghosts of the Cold War should be an urgent priority, and that it is no longer acceptable to live in a world with thousands of thermonuclear weapons primed and ready to launch. As Andreasen says, "The key to deep cuts is not deep control treaties; rather, it is to deepen and widen the consensus that our security will be enhanced...
...Your article properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs. But it did not adequately characterize the weak centrism of Democrats. With our nation in desperate, urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin. Mark Warner Minneapolis...
Washington, Broken Your article "Why Washington's Tied Up in Knots," properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs [March 1]. But it did not adequately characterize the wan centrism of Democrats. With our nation in urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin. Mark Warner, MINNEAPOLIS...
...instructive to look back to a previous episode of the Church's attempts at damage control, in April 2002, when a similar clergy-sex-abuse storm was ravaging the U.S. Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II summoned all the American Cardinals to Rome for an urgent meeting on the crisis. It was an unprecedented public acknowledgment of the gravity of the situation from the typically insulated Vatican leadership. But reporters who made the trip from Boston, the epicenter of the scandal, were hardly impressed with the Vatican openness. When the postsummit briefing included five senior Church officials...