The American public regularly hears of plans to further extend government control over medical care but rarely of reforms that would go in a different (and sometimes opposite) direction. Part of the problem is that Republicans are more comfortable and adept at criticizing the flaws of Medicare for All and similar initiatives than at articulating a vision of their own. That needs to change if the decades-long drift toward ever greater governmental control of the health sector is to be arrested and reversed.

Underappreciated Political Possibilities in 2020.

The debate was a bust, Bernie’s momentum hit an Elizabethan buzz saw, the Russians hacked Burisma, Lev Parnas claimed Trump’s Ukrainian shakedown was all about the Bidens, there are good new polls and more endorsements from the House Democrats’ most valued front-liners -- could things have gone any better for Joe Biden this week?