Features

• Health Reform, Meet Tax Reform

  David Kendall

  The current tax treatment of health benefits makes no sense. A feasible strategy for health reform should now put tax reform at its center. But which kind?

• Hidden Kingdom: Disney's Political Blueprint

  Joshua Shenk

  Walt Disney dubbed one of his attractions the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), but the name might better describe his design for private government.

• Abandoned Surgery: Business and the Failure of Health Reform

  John Judis

  Business once seemed a potential ally in national health reform. Then it turned around and became instrumental in reform's defeat. The inside story of what happened and why.

• Our NAIRU Limit: The Governing Myth of Economic Policy

  Robert Eisner

  It's now a familiar story: The Fed raises interest rates to slow the economy. But new research suggests that we are needlessly sacrificing prosperity on the altar of false economic assumptions.

• The Contract and the Consumer

  Carl Bogus

  The conservatives haven't made "tort reform" a crusade to stop a flood of products liability litigation. There is no such flood. This is a straight payoff to their benefactors.

• Liberalism's Third Crisis

  Alan Brinkley

  This isn't the first time liberals have faced reverses and needed to reframe their ideas.

• Gingrich's Time Bomb: The Consequences of the Contract

  Philip Harvey

  Did anyone read the fine print? The Contract with America has been devilishly constructed with provisions that will set off a fiscal -- and social -- explosion years from now.

• A New Conversation: How to Rebuild the Democratic Party

  Jeff Faux

  Let's face it: The Democratic Party got into some bad relationships. It doesn't need a new message so much as a whole new conversation with the American people.

• Sex, Lies, and The Scarlett Letter

  Deborah Stone

• Clinton's Not-So-Good Deeds

  Edward Herman

• Devil in the Details

  Jonathan Chait

• Perrier in the Newsroom

  Jonathan Cohn

• How Low Can You Go? Shoot Now, Think Later

  Paul Starr

• Who Owns the Future?

  Paul Starr

• State of the Debate: The Sale of a Generation

  Heather McLeod

  Generation X is a hot marketing concept, used as a hook to sell everything from condoms to cars. Can right-wingers use it to sell their ideas?

• Behind the Numbers: Class Dismissed?

  S.M. Miller

  The Democrats have hinged their political strategy upon the empirically shaky notion that most Americans consider themselves middle class. The consequences are not just rhetorical.