Dear E.J. Dionne: Did Clinton succeed or fail? It depends on how you define success. We need to consider him as a president, as a party man, as a world leader, and as a political figure who we hoped would rebuild confidence in the enterprise of democratic government. The U.S. economy certainly boomed during his […]
E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne Jr. is the co-author of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. He is a Washington Post columnist, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University.
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Back from the Dead: Neoprogressivism in the ’90s
The conservative revolution turned out to be less than a mandate. Can the various factions that call themselves progressive get behind a common vision?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Quest for Community (Again)
Somewhere between the capitalist’s market and the citizen’s state lies the lost land of community, sought after by humane conservatives, liberals, and social democrats alike. Herewith a modest progressive agenda for repairing some of the damage moder