How can that be? According to public health researchers, the biggest reasons are behavior and environment. Costa Ricans consume about half as many cigarettes per person as we do. Not surprisingly, they are four times less likely to die of lung cancer. The car ownership rate in Costa Rica is a fraction of what it […]
Phillip J. Longman
Phillip Longman is senior editor at the Washington Monthly and policy director at the Open Markets Institute.
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Patriot Gains
But unlike the great war-bond drives of the past, this campaign involved no celebrities–not even Bono–and what little press attention it received was mostly derisive. These “Patriot Bonds,” it turned out, were just regular Series EE savings bonds with a new label, and what revenue they raised was not even earmarked for the war on […]
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Bad Press
I was once proud of my profession and resentful of those who criticized it. For more than 20 years, I rode the great boom in business journalism that began in the early 1980s. I like to believe that at least some of my stories helped to enlighten readers and remedy wrongdoing. But today, I’m more […]
