MORE FROM CONNECTICUT. At Stratford�s Frank Scott Bunnell High School this morning, those who stopped to share their views spoke with plain, if surprisingly unsentimental, conviction about their choice. �I�ve lived through too many wars, and I want my two young grandsons to have the same opportunity to vote that I�m exercising today,� said Susan […]
Dorian Friedman
Dorian Friedman is The American Prospect's director of external affairs.
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Mommy Diarist
On a recent afternoon, Judith Warner — author of the best-selling Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story and a former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris — is sipping organic tea in her sunroom while reflecting on her forthcoming book, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Riverhead). She talks with Dorian Friedman about The […]
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Bipartisanship Remembered
Amid the clatter over “saving” Social Security, it’s instructive to look back 22 years — to a time when an imperiled program was saved by a true bipartisan compromise. Then, as now, a newly emboldened GOP was rewriting the agenda in Washington. But then, unlike now, each side sacrificed for long-term gain. As the 1980s […]
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Business: Ally or Obstacle?
By now, the stirring images are familiar to television viewers: teary-eyed father recounting beloved child’s battle with life-threatening illness … child enjoying miraculous recovery thanks to world-class health care at Mayo Clinic … grateful dad’s glowing tribute to beneficent employer for picking up tab, supporting family values, and investing in hard-pressed workers like him. The […]
