Charles Krauthammer's foreign policy column
After Sept. 11 Krauthammer wrote about a radical and dominant approach to
foreign policy, which the Bush Administration adopted. Now the next
President
will need to be an international expert, have a style of patient
diplomacy
and preferably have spent some time overseas or in the military.
Global warming sources
A cap-and-trade system where major carbon producers would have to pay to
pollute above a certain level is the most politically feasible way to
control emissions. Al Gore's congressional testimony and a September American
Scientific article have several suggestions to combat global warming.
Sen. Ron Wyden's health-care plan
Wyden's proposed health-care plan (and a positive independent assessment
of
it by a health-care consulting firm) is a viable solution to the
employer-based system that's making companies break the bank.
New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce's proposal
This proposal to fix the deteriorating public school system takes the
funding and much of the control of public schools away from local school
boards and gives power to the states.
Mandatory national service books
The absence of mandatory military service in the baby boom generation has
contributed
to America's largely slovenly culture. Are We Rome by Cullen Murphy
and A
Call to Civic Service by Charles Moskos suggest bringing it back.