Libby Sternberg is a novelist and commentator who contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 1996 and 2009. Her pieces for the magazine covered a range of topics including education policy, healthcare politics, and cultural commentary. She is known for her advocacy of school choice and her fiction writing.
While supporters of the health-care bill focus on politics, opponents focus on policy. President Obama made an unfortunate stumble in his August 11 town hall meeting on health care reform. "FedEx and UPS are doing just fine," he said, attempting to allay fears that a public option would drive…
IT'S EARLY IN THE presidential campaign to be getting all het up about outrageous ads that distort records or enflame passions. But a recent commercial sponsored by Moveon.org and AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) has lit a fuse with me, maybe in part because it…
"MOST WORKING- AND middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race," Senator Barack Obama bravely asserted in his March 18 speech. "Their experience is the immigrant experience--as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've…
IN THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE on domestic issues, CBS newsman Bob Schieffer asked one of the best questions of all three forums: Do you think homosexuality is a choice?
Could serious artists survive without the National Endowment for the Arts? Could Americans tell what constitutes worth-while art? There are enough American club rooms hung with pictures of poker-playing puppies and doe-eyed waifs to suggest that the answer is no.
NESTLED IN THE MOUNTAINS of lush Vermont is a tiny town called Chittenden (pop. 1,102) that may soon become embroiled in a constitutional controversy. Like many small Vermont towns, Chittenden has no high school. Instead, its high school students are "tuitioned" by the town to the school of their…