“The Guns and Soul of America,”
David Brooks, Oct. 6, 2017
The piece “The Guns and Soul of America” by David Brooks, questions the seemingly obvious belief: that as there is an increase in violent deaths and mass shootings involving privately owned firearms, there should also be an increase in stricter gun laws, and a downturn in popular opinion regarding gun ownership. Instead, in his column, Brooks writes to prove that the opposite is the case - that as the instances of mass shootings occur, there is then a correlating pattern of states loosening gun control laws. He then presents a larger issue that may be at hand: that gun ownership, or the opinion against it, represents an American’s “values and identity,” that the argument for or against …show more content…
3rd. Will asserts that democrats are disengaged with the “prudent,” moderate majority of the country who already support banning late-term abortions, and that they are extremist in their fight to keep abortions legal through phases of pregnancy in which medicine can now prove that the fetus is …show more content…
18, 2017
Paul Krugman’s opinion piece, “Complacency Could Kill Healthcare,” was written after three previously failed attempts of the senate to pass a repeal on the Affordable Care Act, and just before the fourth attempt, the Graham-Cassidy bill. In it, the author proclaims that complacency by the American population, much like the complacency that was evident during the 2016 presidential election, could end up letting this bill pass - just like it let Donald Trump win.
Krugman lists the crucial and necessary points of the Affordable Care Act: insurance being required for all, Medicaid expansion, eligibility for insurance with a pre-existing condiotn, and premium subsidies as the very same aspects that all previous attempts at an ACA repeal, and the upcoming Graham-Cassidy bill have and would subvert. The author points out that there are enough electorates who consistently vote within party lines that those left over are the ones that “can tip the balance in favor of even the worst candidate imaginable.” So even though the goals of any republican partly-led attempt at repealing the ACA should draw ire and action from anybody who supports the ACA, not enough people take the threat seriously as “the news cycle has moved on, taking public attention with it.” Krugman concludes by calling on the reader to “make your voice heard,” lest the republicans in the senate manage to dismantle affordable healthcare for
David Brooks, Oct. 6, 2017
The piece “The Guns and Soul of America” by David Brooks, questions the seemingly obvious belief: that as there is an increase in violent deaths and mass shootings involving privately owned firearms, there should also be an increase in stricter gun laws, and a downturn in popular opinion regarding gun ownership. Instead, in his column, Brooks writes to prove that the opposite is the case - that as the instances of mass shootings occur, there is then a correlating pattern of states loosening gun control laws. He then presents a larger issue that may be at hand: that gun ownership, or the opinion against it, represents an American’s “values and identity,” that the argument for or against …show more content…
3rd. Will asserts that democrats are disengaged with the “prudent,” moderate majority of the country who already support banning late-term abortions, and that they are extremist in their fight to keep abortions legal through phases of pregnancy in which medicine can now prove that the fetus is …show more content…
18, 2017
Paul Krugman’s opinion piece, “Complacency Could Kill Healthcare,” was written after three previously failed attempts of the senate to pass a repeal on the Affordable Care Act, and just before the fourth attempt, the Graham-Cassidy bill. In it, the author proclaims that complacency by the American population, much like the complacency that was evident during the 2016 presidential election, could end up letting this bill pass - just like it let Donald Trump win.
Krugman lists the crucial and necessary points of the Affordable Care Act: insurance being required for all, Medicaid expansion, eligibility for insurance with a pre-existing condiotn, and premium subsidies as the very same aspects that all previous attempts at an ACA repeal, and the upcoming Graham-Cassidy bill have and would subvert. The author points out that there are enough electorates who consistently vote within party lines that those left over are the ones that “can tip the balance in favor of even the worst candidate imaginable.” So even though the goals of any republican partly-led attempt at repealing the ACA should draw ire and action from anybody who supports the ACA, not enough people take the threat seriously as “the news cycle has moved on, taking public attention with it.” Krugman concludes by calling on the reader to “make your voice heard,” lest the republicans in the senate manage to dismantle affordable healthcare for