http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/analysis analysis news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2012 2012-02-04T07:23:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020112_obama_brewer_op/how-gov-brewer-actually-helped-president-obama/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020112_obama_brewer_op/how-gov-brewer-actually-helped-president-obama/ 16:48:00Z Sam Fulwood III With a waggle of her right index finger last Wednesday, Gov. Jan Brewer erased the question of whether black voters will be enthusiastic about going to the polls in support of President Obama. Now, you can count on it. 2012-02-01T16:48:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012612_students_contraception_insurance/contraceptive-coverage-rule-big-win-students/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012612_students_contraception_insurance/contraceptive-coverage-rule-big-win-students/ 19:06:00Z Lucy Panza Students need affordable contraception as much as other young adults do, and starting this August, they will have it with no cost-sharing, regardless of whether their university has a religious affiliation. 2012-01-26T19:06:01+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012112_evangelicals/thats-wrap-evangelicals/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012112_evangelicals/thats-wrap-evangelicals/ 03:26:00Z Jimmy Zuma In a post-Citizens United world, has unlimited money ended the need to pander to evangelicals? 2012-01-22T03:26:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011812_stateofstate_op/state-state-drifts-into-uncharted-waters/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011812_stateofstate_op/state-state-drifts-into-uncharted-waters/ 19:07:00Z Ed Perkins “Arizona has been saved.” With that bold declaration, Gov. Jan Brewer proclaimed that Arizona now boasts a budget surplus. But it may take some fancy dead reckoning to leverage the estimated fiscal surplus—$416 million to $650 million—while keeping things ship-shape. 2012-01-18T19:07:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011712_defense_research_development/is-defense-rd-spending-effective/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011712_defense_research_development/is-defense-rd-spending-effective/ 21:08:00Z Eric Alterman If we are to get our deficits under control, then we no longer have the luxury of throwing countless billions of dollars at Pentagon research and development and hoping they land somewhere else. 2012-01-17T21:08:19+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011612_romney_health_potter/opinion-only-romneys-dream-world/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011612_romney_health_potter/opinion-only-romneys-dream-world/ 21:21:00Z Wendell Potter Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s naïve suggestion that anyone but him and his rich friends could actually fire a health insurer on a whim and hire another one that might provide better service isn’t realistic.  2012-01-16T21:21:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011312_class_warfare_taboo/shattering-class-warfare-taboo/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011312_class_warfare_taboo/shattering-class-warfare-taboo/ 00:01:00Z Jimmy Zuma A new poll from Pew Research Center confirms that Americans are thinking a lot about class disparity. And now that they are talking, it turns out that most Americans think the deck is stacked in favor of the rich. 2012-01-14T00:01:14+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/010712_mex_cartels_power/which-cartel-king-mexico/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/010712_mex_cartels_power/which-cartel-king-mexico/ 14:35:00Z Sarah Childress The guilty plea of the Tijuana cartel boss in the United States on Thursday marked the official waning of that drug network. But it also raised an interesting question: which cartel is now on top? 2012-01-07T14:35:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010612_religionwar/the-republican-religious-war/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/010612_religionwar/the-republican-religious-war/ 21:35:00Z Jimmy Zuma Are Christians planning a last ditch effort to prevent a Mormon takeover of the Republican Party? 2012-01-06T21:35:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122611_sopa_op/avast-sopa-threat-free-speech/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122611_sopa_op/avast-sopa-threat-free-speech/ 16:44:00Z Bill Macfadyen When I first heard talk of SOPA, of course I thought of Mexican food. But the more I’ve learned about the Stop Online Piracy Act working its way through Congress, the more of a bad taste it leaves. The law would open a porthole to censorship, online disruption and more expensive Internet connections. 2011-12-27T16:44:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122611_medicare_op/the-ryan-plan-when-medicare-isnt-medicare/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122611_medicare_op/the-ryan-plan-when-medicare-isnt-medicare/ 21:02:00Z Wendell Potter Let’s say you have a Ford and decide to replace everything under the hood with Hyundai parts, including the engine and transmission. Could you still honestly market your car as a Ford? That question gets at the heart of the controversy over who is being more forthright about GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to “save” Medicare, Republicans or Democrats. 2011-12-26T21:02:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122311_boehner_dead_man/john-boehner-after-dead-man-walks/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122311_boehner_dead_man/john-boehner-after-dead-man-walks/ 18:00:00Z Jimmy Zuma Republicans are destroying their brand in part because of naked ambition. But no one is more responsible for making Republicans look like nattering nabobs than “Weepy-John” Boehner. 2011-12-23T18:00:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121911_kimjong_next/whats-next-north-korea/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121911_kimjong_next/whats-next-north-korea/ 21:03:00Z Bradley K. Martin Kim Jong Un, the heir apparent of Kim Jong Il, is left with a legacy that he may not be able to fulfill. But can he top is father’s brother-in-law? 2011-12-19T21:03:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121711_zip_it/hey-democrats-zip-it/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121711_zip_it/hey-democrats-zip-it/ 03:34:00Z Jimmy Zuma The best course of action for Democrats is to sit back and let Republicans wound their own. Increasingly, the GOP nominating process is serving Democrats—peeling back the layers of obfuscation and exposing the weaknesses and inadequacies of its likely nominees. 2011-12-18T03:34:07+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121111_republican_polls/republican-polls-summary-its-gettin-ugly/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121111_republican_polls/republican-polls-summary-its-gettin-ugly/ 16:25:00Z Jimmy Zuma The Republican nominating process is shining light in some dark places. It’s a little embarrassing. 2011-12-12T16:25:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120511_tea_party_occupy_op/why-do-mainstream-media-favor-tea-party-over-occupy-wall-street/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120511_tea_party_occupy_op/why-do-mainstream-media-favor-tea-party-over-occupy-wall-street/ 15:44:00Z Eric Alterman Support for the Tea Party is in a free fall. Now that so many voters have discovered that they apparently purchased a defective product in Tea Party governance in the 2010 elections, perhaps a similar recognition on the part of the mainstream media will not be so far behind. 2011-12-05T15:44:55+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120211_dying_middle_class/stocks-point-dying-middle-class/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120211_dying_middle_class/stocks-point-dying-middle-class/ 19:00:00Z Jimmy Zuma The stock market tells us the middle class is dying. But we can still save it. Nick Hanauer knows how. 2011-12-02T19:00:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/113011_sec_citigroup/why-federal-judge-trashed-secs-deal-with-citigroup/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/113011_sec_citigroup/why-federal-judge-trashed-secs-deal-with-citigroup/ 17:56:00Z Marian Wang When the Securities and Exchange Commission struck a deal with Citigroup over a failed security that the bank sold to investors, we asked whether regulators had handed Citigroup too sweet a deal. 2011-11-30T17:56:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112811_potter_health_care/us-health-care-nowhere-near-best-world/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112811_potter_health_care/us-health-care-nowhere-near-best-world/ 16:46:00Z Wendell Potter Last week, the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD) released the results of its most recent study of the health care systems in its member countries, including the United States, plus six others, for a total of 40. And those results are illuminating. 2011-11-28T16:46:32+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112811_perry_analysis/as-presidential-candidate-perry-no-bush-or-clinton/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112811_perry_analysis/as-presidential-candidate-perry-no-bush-or-clinton/ 16:15:00Z Ross Ramsey In the array of governors who turned to national politics — a collection that includes four of the last six presidents and a horde of contestants who didn’t make it — Rick Perry looks a lot more like Sarah Palin than like George W. Bush. And not just in his politics. 2011-11-28T16:15:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112211_occupy_think_again/billionaire-media-moguls-vs-occupy-wall-street/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112211_occupy_think_again/billionaire-media-moguls-vs-occupy-wall-street/ 18:48:00Z Eric Alterman Hundreds of police officers, many wearing riot helmets, marched into lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park last week. The first thing the police did was clear out the journalists so that they could not see what was going on. Ironically, the owners of at least three New York newspapers could not have been happier. 2011-11-22T18:48:02+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111911_republican_ticket/the-republican-ticket-that-democrats-want/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111911_republican_ticket/the-republican-ticket-that-democrats-want/ 15:43:00Z Jimmy Zuma Do you think Democrats are behind the recent Republican scandals? Think again. 2011-11-19T15:43:56+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/111811_super_pacs_larose/super-pac-man-gobbles-up-regulators-time-patience/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/111811_super_pacs_larose/super-pac-man-gobbles-up-regulators-time-patience/ 18:21:00Z Kim Barker Since the Supreme Court ruling paved the way for groups to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of candidates, 240 so-called Super PACs have registered with the Federal Election Commission. Josue Larose — purported millionaire, alleged economist and general man of mystery — has formed 60 of them. 2011-11-18T18:21:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111811_occupy_analysis/occupy-wall-street-hidden-meaning-behind-protests/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111811_occupy_analysis/occupy-wall-street-hidden-meaning-behind-protests/ 16:59:00Z Thomas Mucha In short, the social contract in America is broken. The optimistic glue that has successfully held together so much diversity, so many disparate dreams, for so long, is coming undone. Unfortunately, the 99 percent and the 1 percent appear to be miles apart, and this is particularly true in the U.S. right now. 2011-11-18T16:59:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/111411_gop_debate/checking-facts-gop-debate/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/111411_gop_debate/checking-facts-gop-debate/ 16:29:00Z Factcheck.org We found several exaggerations and misstatements in the latest Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Romney issued a hollow threat to take China’s currency manipulation to a world body that doesn’t actually deal with overvalued money, and he claimed federal spending consumes more of the nation’s economic output than it really does. 2011-11-14T16:29:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111211_tea_party_dies/the-day-tea-party-died/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111211_tea_party_dies/the-day-tea-party-died/ 22:49:00Z Jimmy Zuma The political news last week weaves a single narrative—the decline of the Tea Party. Whether in Tucson’s elections or the GOP race to pick a presidential nominee, the right wing is on the ropes. 2011-11-12T22:49:16+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111111_vets_numbers/honoring-our-veterans-by-numbers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111111_vets_numbers/honoring-our-veterans-by-numbers/ 16:39:00Z Center for American Progress This by-the-numbers look at service members and veterans paints a picture of the many men and women who have served our country and the difficulties they face before, during, and after deployments, including combat stress injuries and trouble finding jobs and affordable housing. 2011-11-11T16:39:30+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/111011_flat_taxes/flat-taxes-are-big-former-ussr-but-have-they-worked/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/111011_flat_taxes/flat-taxes-are-big-former-ussr-but-have-they-worked/ 16:35:00Z Braden Goyette GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have all introduced proposals for flat taxes. Most of the countries that have adopted flat taxes in recent years are from the former Soviet bloc. Economists caution that you can’t necessarily translate their experiences into an American context. 2011-11-10T16:35:22+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/110911_immigration_poll/78-arizonans-favor-path-citizenship-undocumented/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/110911_immigration_poll/78-arizonans-favor-path-citizenship-undocumented/ 20:40:00Z Joseph Garcia Arizonans overwhelmingly favor a comprehensive approach to immigration policies – secure borders and enforcement, coupled with a possible pathway to citizenship for undocumented residents, according to a new statewide poll. 2011-11-09T20:40:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110511_citizens_united_amendment/the-constitutional-amendment-nullify-citizens-united/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110511_citizens_united_amendment/the-constitutional-amendment-nullify-citizens-united/ 15:43:00Z Jimmy Zuma Fixing campaign finance doesn’t go nearly far enough. We need to fix the notion that corporations are people. 2011-11-05T15:43:34+00:00