mericans of all political stripes tend to see what they want to see in the European Union. For progressives, its example is supposed to show how a robust welfare state, including universal health care, is consistent with prosperity. Its also supposed to show how separation of church and state, multilateralism, multiculturalism, opposition to the death […]
Phillip Longman
Phil joined the staff of the Washington Monthly in 2012. He is also the policy director at the Open Markets Institute and a lecturer at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches health care policy.
In addition to writing many feature articles for the Monthly, Phil’s work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The New York Times Magazine, Politica Exterior, Der Spiegel, and World Politics Review. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.
Phil is on X @LongmanPhil.
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Misdiagnosed
In his new book, Sick: The Untold Story of Americas Health Care Crisisand the People Who Pay the Price, Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the New Republic, offers a series of chilling anecdotes about ordinary Americans who lack affordable medical care. Theres the mother of three who, after her husband loses his high-tech job […]
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Son King
No tengo futuro, Jeb Bush told Spanish-language reporters last December. Word that Floridas popular two-term governor sees himself as having no political future is hardly surprising. Jeb may be the smart one, the one whos deeply curious and involved with the mechanics of government, the one whose poll ratings as he leaves office show that […]
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The Masculine Mystique
But a man’s got to have a code to live by. And according to mine, stranger, a real man don’t ride around saying things like it’s “a considerable fact that almost any man can beat up almost any woman.” That sounds to me like something some yeller-bellied, four-eyed tenderfoot might say before his ma washes […]
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The Best Care Anywhere
Ten years ago, veterans hospitals were dangerous, dirty, and scandal-ridden. Today, they’re producing the highest quality care in the country. Their turnaround points the way toward solving America’s health-care crisis.
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The Best Care Anywhere
uick. When you read “veterans hospital,” what comes to mind? Maybe you recall the headlines from a dozen years ago about the three decomposed bodies found near a veterans medical center in Salem, Va. Two turned out to be the remains of patients who had wandered months before. The other body had been resting in […]
