The Treatment

Daily Treatment, Revelations Edition

The business community is afraid of the public plan. David Williams says it shouldn't be.

You'll never guess whose insurance policy pays for abortion services. Read Amy Sullivan to find out.

The graphic truth about House versus Senate coverage provisions. Via the office of Rep. Jim Cooper, via Ezra Klein.

That ridiculous claim of $700 billion in waste? Not so ridiculous after all. Christopher Weaver explains.

And must-read of the day: Brian Beutler has reconstructed the deliberations about the public plan between the White House and Senate Democratic leadership. Neither one was that eager to include the public option. But neither wanted to take the blame for ditching it.

Reinhold Niebuhr at TNR

The Alternatives to Communism

Is exporting democracy the way to stop totalitarian dictators?

Liberalism: Illusions and Realities

Does Kirk's "Conservative Mind" make any sense?

The Puritan Conscience

The flawed origins of U.S. exceptionalism.

Our Stake in the State of Israel

Will we abandon our one secure bastion in the Middle East?

Liberals and the Marxist Heresy

Grappling with the fellow travelers--and McCarthy.

Vietnam: Study in Ironies

Why America is losing its way in Southeast Asia.

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