Good Jobs in a Global Economy
The next president can change our trade and labor policies to rebuild the American middle class.
Why 2009 Is the Year for Universal Health Care
It’s not 1994 all over again. The next president can get the reforms that Harry Truman and Bill Clinton couldn’t.
Dying Did Not Become Her
David Rieff’s memoir of the terminal illness of his mother, Susan Sontag, shows the consolations of philosophy deserting her and the denial of truth sustaining her as death approached.
A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Great presidents build support for transformative change. What can the next president do to revive a sense of common purpose?
Reparations Anxiety
Brown University announced that it will give a $10 million endowment to local public schools to atone for its involvement in the slave trade. But reparations alone will not address the ongoing segregation of the American education system.
Pronouncing Our Own Doom
It’s strange that the incarceration rate is not as big an issue in the U.S. now as it was in Dostoevsky’s Russia, not to mention Dickens’ England. When will the United States wake up to the problem of our growing prison population?
What to Really Do About Immigration
Half a million Mexicans will cross the border annually for the next 15 years. Here’s a plan to enable them to stay home.
Color, Values, America
Our next president must restore the United States as a nation of laws and of rights, rooted deeply in values. This effort must appeal to all Americans and transcend race — but cannot ignore race.
UpFront
Vegas as the new Athens; Mike Huckabee on bass; Larry Craig in Bali; T.A. Frank on what’s out and what’s in for 2008; and The Question.
The Democrats’ Strategic Challenge
If the Democrats win the election, can the next president and Congress make significant progress toward realizing liberal aspirations? Here’s how — a road map for the start of a new America.
Healing Our Self-Inflicted Wounds
How the next president can restore the rule of law to U.S. foreign policy — and rebuild American credibility and power.
Michael’s Poor Almanac
How Michael Barone made The Almanac of American Politics irrelevant.
Cool Warriors
The strength of postwar liberalism was not its tough stance against Communism but its deep, nuanced vision of American leadership. Thankfully, that vision is also held by today’s Democratic leaders.
Leaving “No Child Left Behind” Behind
Our No. 1 education program is incoherent, unworkable, and doomed. But the next president still can have a huge impact on improving American schooling.
Financing the Common Good
After three decades of government starvation of necessary resources, the next president needs to champion progressive taxation with the proceeds invested in social outlays that make for a more productive economy.
This Will Mean the World to Us
Despite decades of delay, the next administration could still move us toward a solution before devastating climate change becomes irreversible.
The Long and the Short
Covering the unfolding presidential race while also looking ahead to the challenges that will face the Democrats if they win the White House.
What Ever Happened to Moderate Republicans?
With the hard right dominating their party, two groups have formed to recenter the Republicans. But even in their old habitats — Wall Street and the media — they’re struggling to be noticed.
