The subsidy portion of health reform would cost around a trillion dollars over the next decade. In all the plans currently on the table, this expense would be offset with a combination of cost savings elsewhere and additional taxes, so that there ...

We are expected to hold our breath. Excitement is building. Or not, as the case may be. Will Bob Woodward's latest book bring down or bolster the administration? What are the bets?

Andrew Sullivan quotes a passage about nailing the real torturers. The problem with the pictures of torture, this writer says, is that they tend to stir up rage against the low-level guys doing the torture rather than their more guilty bosses.