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COMMENTARY BY FROMA HARROP

  • The Tea-Baggers Were Carpetbaggers By Froma Harrop

    The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York's 23rd congressional district:

  • The Population Boomerang in Iran By Froma Harrop

    Iranian students are engaging this week in Round Two of their street-level struggle for reform. Round One took place last June, when young people protested the fixed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

  • What Does the FHA Think It Is Doing? By Froma Harrop

    Exactly who made Bernadine Shimon think that she could buy a new house shortly after declaring bankruptcy and losing another home to foreclosure? The American taxpayer, that's who.

  • The Phantom of the Option By Froma Harrop

    The public option, we hear, is about to take earthly form. While congressional leaders working to combine five health care reform bills will determine its final shape, a government-run health plan to compete with the private offerings will almost surely become reality. And the specter of a populist uprising against it will haunt centrist Democrats no more.

  • 'America's Best Idea' Meets One of the Worst By Froma Harrop

    The Ken Burns series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" got me thinking about one of America's worst ideas, the war on drugs. Particularly ill-conceived is the crusade against marijuana.

  • Social Security: Every Politician's Toy? By Froma Harrop

    Social Security is a glossy piece of paper on which nearly every politician wants to finger-paint an agenda. But Social Security has no need of ornament. It is a very grown-up program. Put some other toy into the political playpen.

  • Science and the Female Brain By Froma Harrop

    The recent award of Nobel Prizes in biology and chemistry to three women dredges up Larry Summers' suggestion in 2005 that differences in the female brain may account for the dearth of top women scientists. Now President Obama's economic adviser, Summers was then speechifying as president of Harvard.

  • Weary of Culinary Spectacle, Spending and Sport By Froma Harrop

    I must be the only "foodie" who didn't love "Julie & Julia," the movie about Julia Child and the office worker she inspired, Julie Powell. Am I allowed?

  • Health Care Reform Helps Every Generation By Froma Harrop

    In terms of health coverage, one date separates the most secure Americans from the least secure: a person's 65th birthday. Age 65 is when one qualifies for Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled. It's become a source of intergenerational strife -- not so much between the old and young as between the old and the nearly old.

  • Fix Health Care Now, Remove Warts Later By Froma Harrop

    "Rome was not built in a day," Montana Democrat Max Baucus said with resignation after the Senate committee he heads voted to reject a "public option." A government-run health plan that would compete with private insurers' offerings, the public option is a means to curb spiraling health care costs.