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The Woes of Roe

January 9, 2013
The New York Times
By GAIL COLLINS

Forty years ago this month,

the Supreme Court handed down

the great abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade.

To be honest, you’re not going to be seeing

a whole lot of cake and Champagne.

Time magazine recognized the occasion

with a downbeat cover story.

(“They’ve Been Losing Ever Since.”)

Gallup polls suggest support for abortion rights

is fading, particularly among young Americans,

and that more people now regard themselves

as “pro-life” than “pro-choice.”

(...)

Every time the anti-abortion movement pushes too far,

it reminds people that its cause,

no matter how filled with moral fervor,

is basically about imposing one particular theology

on the rest of the country.

Over the long run,

the nervous, ambivalent, uncomfortable public

won’t let that happen.

The Woes of Roe, NYT, 9.1.2013,
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/
opinion/collins-the-woes-of-roe.html

A Texas Prosecutor Faces Justice

November 12, 2012
The New York Times
By JOE NOCERA

In just about a month from now,

Texas will witness a rare event:

a former prosecutor is going to be held to account

for alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

    A Texas Prosecutor Faces Justice, NYT, 12.11.2012,
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/opinion/
    nocera-a-texas-prosecutor-faces-justice.html

Our Latest High-Water Mark

November 2, 2012
The New York Times
By CRAIG CHILDS

WATER up to the attics on Staten Island.

Flooded subway and commuter tunnels.

Power lost to 8.5 million homes and businesses.

We get it: this storm and its impacts are huge.

What we may not be getting is why.

When the debris is cleared away,

we will be left with a new high-water mark.

On Monday, sea levels in New York City reached

about 14 feet above the average low-tide mark;

more than 9 feet above the average high;

almost 3 feet above the last record, set in 1821.

In the future, we’re going to see more of the same.

Satellite measurements show that the oceans

are growing; waters are warming.

Both factors increase the effects of storms;

warmer waters lead to fiercer storms,

and sea levels punch up the surges.

Our Latest High-Water Mark, NYT, 2.11.2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/opinion/our-latest-high-water-mark.html

Suicide by Choice?

Not So Fast

October 31, 2012
The New York Times
By BEN MATTLIN

NEXT week, voters in Massachusetts will decide

whether to adopt an assisted-suicide law.

As a good pro-choice liberal,

I ought to support the effort.

But as a lifelong disabled person,

I cannot.

(...)

Suicide by Choice? Not So Fast, NYT, 31.10.2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/opinion/suicide-by-choice-not-so-fast.html

A Grand Experiment

to Rein In Climate Change

October 13, 2012
The New York Times
By FELICITY BARRINGER

LEGGETT, Calif. — Braced against a steep slope, Robert Hrubes cinched his measuring tape around the trunk of one tree after another, barking out diameters like an auctioneer announcing bids. “Twelve point two!” “Fourteen point one!”

Mr. Hrubes’s task, a far cry from forestry of the past, was to calculate how much carbon could be stored within the tanoak, madrone and redwood trees in that plot. Every year or so, other foresters will return to make sure the trees are still standing and doing their job.

Such audits will be crucial as California embarks on its grand experiment in reining in climate change. On Jan. 1, it will become the first state in the nation to charge industries across the economy for the greenhouse gases they emit. Under the system, known as “cap and trade,” the state will set an overall ceiling on those emissions and assign allowable emission amounts for individual polluters. A portion of these so-called allowances will be allocated to utilities, manufacturers and others; the remainder will be auctioned off.

Over time, the number of allowances issued by the state will be reduced, which should force a reduction in emissions.

    A Grand Experiment to Rein In Climate Change, NYT, 13.10.2012,
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/science/earth/
    in-california-a-grand-experiment-to-rein-in-climate-change.html

The Limits of School Reform

April 25, 2011
The New York Times
By JOE NOCERA

I find myself haunted by a 13-year-old boy named Saquan Townsend. It’s been more than two weeks since he was featured in The New York Times Magazine, yet I can’t get him out of my mind.

The article, by Jonathan Mahler, was about the heroic efforts of Ramón González, the principal of M.S. 223, a public middle school in the South Bronx, to make his school a place where his young charges can get a decent education and thus, perhaps, a better life. Surprisingly, though, González is not aligned with the public school reform movement, even though one of the movement’s leading lights, Joel Klein, was until fairly recently his boss as the head of the New York City school system.

( . . . )

What needs to be acknowledged, however, is that school reform won’t fix everything. Though some poor students will succeed, others will fail. Demonizing teachers for the failures of poor students, and pretending that reforming the schools is all that is needed, as the reformers tend to do, is both misguided and counterproductive.

Over the long term, fixing our schools is going to involve a lot more than, well, just fixing our schools. In the short term, however, the reform movement could use something else: a dose of humility about what it can accomplish — and what it can’t.

The Limits of School Reform, NYT, 25.4.2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/opinion/26nocera.html

Burden of College Loans

on Graduates Grows

April 11, 2011
The New York Times
By TAMAR LEWIN

Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt

for the first time last year and is likely to top

a trillion dollars this year as more students go to college

and a growing share borrow money to do so.

While many economists say student debt

should be seen in a more favorable light,

the rising loan bills nevertheless mean

that many graduates will be paying them for a longer time.

“In the coming years,

a lot of people will still be paying off their student loans

when it’s time for their kids to go to college,”

said Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of FinAid.org

and Fastweb.com, who has compiled the estimates

of student debt, including federal and private loans.

( . . . )

Burden of College Loans on Graduates Grows, 11.4.2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/education/12college.html

Relief for States and Businesses

February 9, 2011
The New York Times

So many people now receive jobless benefits

that 30 states have run out

of their unemployment trust funds

and are borrowing $42 billion

from the federal government.

Three of the hardest-hit states

— Michigan, Indiana and South Carolina —

have borrowed so much that they triggered

automatic unemployment tax increases on employers,

and the same thing is likely to happen

to 20 more states this year.

(...)

Over the next decade,

as more people return to work

and the states repay their debt more quickly,

the proposal is expected to bring more dollars back

to the federal government

than the temporary moratorium will cost,

so the long-term effect on the deficit should be positive.

The full details of the plan’s costs and benefits

will be available when President Obama

submits his 2012 budget to Congress next week.

When he does, both parties should take a close look

at the numbers and seize the opportunity

to keep this fundamental safety net solvent.

Relief for States and Businesses, NYT, 9.2.2011,
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/
opinion/10thu1.html

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