JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: DON'T LOOK BACK. Matt weighs in on some of the issues being hashed out in this week's Rose-Mishel debate, and argues that the question in dispute is the wrong question to be debating. Third Wayish prescriptions are lame even if the centrist analysis of middle-class prosperity is roughly accurate, and liberal economic and social policies deserve touting on their own terms -- doing so doesn't require painting a doom-and-gloom picture of the modern economy.
--The Editors