Features
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Saving Their Assets: How to Stop Plunder at Blue Cross and Other Nonprofits
Huge nonprofit corporations are now being converted to for-profit companies, to the immense benefit of corporate insiders. But they can't take charitable assets with them. A victory in California shows what the public should insist upon.
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Straight From the Sixties: What Conservatives Owe the Decade They Hate
Apocalyptic intemperateness, paranoia, a loathing of compromise, a demonization of the enemy -- where have we run into this before?
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Rewarding Work: Feasible Antipoverty Policy
A higher minimum wage and the earned income tax credit fit like puzzle pieces, each compensating for the other's flaws. Together they are our best bet to fight poverty.
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Toward a More Perfect Union: New Labor's Hard Road
The labor movement has new life, but faces immense obstacles. Here's what it can accomplish.
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The Corrosive Politics of Virtue
Decrying moral failure is an old American tradition that goes back to the Puritans. But the moral diagnosis is wrong -- and it brings pernicious political consequences.
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Devil in the Details
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Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files II
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Welfare Reform as I Knew It: When Bad Things Happen to Good Policies
"I'll look forward to reading your book on why it failed this time," Senator Moynihan told me on my first visit as cochair of the Clinton working group on welfare reform. Herewith, the first installment.
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The Fleece Police
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Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files II
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Goldwater's Glitter
Conservatives hail Barry Goldwater as a forerunner; liberals appreciate his belated moderation. But Goldwater wasn't the paragon a new biography makes him out to be.
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Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files II
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Social Security on the Table
Must we destroy Social Security in order to save it?
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Of Our Time: After Solidarity
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Connecting with E.M. Forster
A futuristic fantasy from early in this century offers us a hellish version of life on the Internet.
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Cooked to Order
When two economists showed that a higher minimum wage would have little adverse effect on jobs, did the fast food industry try to spike the data and poison their reputations?
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The Biggest Deal: Lobbying to Take Social Security Private
Privatizing Social Security would create an enormous financial bonanza. So guess who's spending millions to change public perceptions and national policy.
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"F" Is for Fizzle: The Faltering School Privatization Movement
Entrepreneurs promised they could rescue public schools and turn a profit too. Reality intruded.
