Signs of Reform at the New Republic
Franklin Foer faces up to one of the demons of its past. Chris Suellentrop reports:
The Opinionator: TNR's Mea Culpa on Healthcare: In its first issue under new editor Franklin Foer, the New Republic endorses universal health care [$] and calls the collapse of President Clinton's universal health-care plan "a debacle that this magazine, regrettably, abetted." With editorials like that, writes Washington Monthly blogger Kevin Drum, the New Republic will "go a very long way toward redeeming themselves."...