Envisioning America’s Health
The time for health care reform has come. But in order to implement specific policy reforms, we first need a health care vision — a vision that recognizes our health is a fundamental precondition
About the Author
Name: Aaron T. Knapp
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Bio: Aaron Knapp is a writer, attorney and political consultant living in San Francisco. His work appears in national newspapers. He is an avid student of American history and a voracious reader. He graduated from Berkeley in 1999 with highest distinction majoring in Rhetoric and cognitive psychology, and received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2002. The focus of his work is finding creative solutions to the unique issues facing Americans in the 21st Century, without relying on pre-ordained partisan or ideological frameworks, and with keen eye toward the lessons of history. His book on the history and future of American politics is due out this summer.
Articles written by Aaron T. Knapp
Why the Guardian is Wrong on Prop 14
The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s rationale for opposing of Proposition
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Exceptionalism, Irony and Political Action
When the Puritans arrived in the New World in the seventeenth century, they believed they were the Chosen Ones, placed in the Promised Land by the hand
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In Spite of it All.
This summer we are seeing the age-old conflicts of American political life played out in the context of health care reform. The progressives steamroll
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Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant
Devra Davis nearly died from taking a popular painkiller. She later discovered that previous lawsuits exposed that the manufacturer knew the drug could
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The Health Care Conundrum
“I think the American people are hungry for something different and can be mobilized around big changes, not incremental changes, not small changes.”
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Getting Education Right, Right Now
Before he voluntarily resigned from the presidency, George Washington described for Thomas Jefferson his vision of a national university. He wanted a
Envisioning America’s Energy Future
Ever since the energy crisis in the 1970s, we have known that our dependence on foreign oil weakens us and impedes our progress as a nation. By perpetuating
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Parties Without Partisanship
How can you have postpartisanship when there are two dominant political parties? The answer lies in a distinction. Yes, another one of those pesky intellectual distinctions. The distinction is between
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Has The Blogosphere Failed Us?
For over forty years, three major news stations — ABC, CBS, and NBC — the Associated Press, and a few large newspapers were the primary means by which most Americans got their news and learned
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