Must Reads - March 9, 2011

Professors Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker explain what is at stake in the fight over unions in the Washington Post's Outlook section:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402416.html

Bishop Stephen Blaire, Chair of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, writes to Senators about budget priorities:

http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/Final-2011-CR-letter-Domestic-Senate.pdf

Kevin Clarke, at America magazine, writes about the fate awaiting women in the war=torn regions of the Congo:

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12748

Sister Jeanne Clark explains why Catholics should oppose the anti-Muslim

hearings being held by Cong. Peter King:

http://ncronline.org/news/why-catholics-must-speak-out-against-islamophobia

Eugene Robinson, in the Washington Post, explains why the King hearings play into the jihadists' hands:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030703197.html

Harold Pollack, writing in the New Republic, explains the problems posed by the attacks on Medicaid being undertaken by some governors:

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/84696/states-health-care-obama-governors

Richard McBrien remembers the late, great Bishop Samuel Ruiz who dedicated his life to the indigenous people of Chiapas:

http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/bishop-ruiz-taught-us-evolve