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Paul Starr

Paul Starr is co-editor of the The American Prospect. His most recent book is Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform. Click here to read more about Starr.

Recent Articles

How Low Can You Go? Shoot Now, Think Later

Paul StarrDec 19, 2001

Shoot Now, Think Later

Conservatives everywhere are trying to outdo each other. Cut off welfare after two years? Make that just 60 days in some states. End social benefits to illegal immigrants? Make that legal immigrants too. Add the death penalty for some federal crimes? Why not for more?

Who Owns the Future?

Paul StarrDec 19, 2001

They
claim to be riding a wave of historical change. The
wave is global in its reach
and unstoppable in its force. Those who get in the way are
representatives of an old, obsolete
order; they may put up a fight, but they will be beaten in the
inevitable transformation.

The Disengaged

Paul StarrDec 19, 2001

The Undertow

Paul StarrDec 19, 2001

Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game

For those who always thought public policy was a game anyone could play, it finally is. But beware of what the game assumes.

Paul StarrDec 19, 2001

Standing around the computer, my two older daughters, nine and eleven years old, scan the picture of the city we're creating and debate whether it needs more commercial or residential development. My six-year-old son suggests we look at the city budget. In just a few weeks he has learned enough to ask the critical question: "What's the cash flow?"

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