Up For Discussion

Where’d You Go, Doc?

With Obamacare, More People Will Get Healthcare—If They Can Find It

The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is scheduled to take full effect in early 2014. The legislation is supposed to increase the number of people with health insurance, and thus perhaps create new demand for healthcare and doctors at a time when some parts of the country, including California’s Central Valley, are reporting a shortage of care and physicians. In advance of the Zócalo event, “Does Bakersfield Need More Doctors?,” we posed the following question to healthcare experts: Will the Affordable Care Act create a nationwide doctor shortage, …

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Did We Get Haiti Less Wrong This Time?

Six Billion Dollars Went to Haiti After Its Earthquake. Some of the Money May Even Have Helped.

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, an earthquake, one of the deadliest in history, struck Haiti and killed over 300,000 people. In the aftermath, governments and aid organizations rushed in to …

Lost In Space

Should the U.S. Government Spend Billions On NASA?

Ever since Sputnik 1, millions of American kids have dreamed of becoming astronauts—while the U.S. has spent billions of dollars on sending shuttles, people, satellites, and more out into the …

Because Ezra Pound Isn’t A Crowd Pleaser

Is There Still a Place Today for ‘High’ Art?

When it comes to choosing between The Jersey Shore and a Fellini film, more people will choose The Jersey Shore. Same with hip hop lyrics and a modernist poem, or street graffiti and a …

Two Parties, One Sick Democracy

Would Political Dysfunction in America Be Reduced If We Had More Than Two Dominant Parties?

While Republicans and Democrats engage in their scorched-earth, zero-sum version of political warfare, a majority of Americans with moderate views and a desire to see their representatives come together to …

Big Money. Small Money. More Money.

From the Rich to the Not So Rich, More Money Is Being Given in More Ways to Presidential Campaigns. Should We Worry?

No matter the issue, the debate in this year’s presidential election is all about money: about the national debt, about how much we spend on entitlements, on the high finance …


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