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Harold Meyerson reviews the Ted Kennedy memoir True Compass: Only once in his nearly half-century as a United States senator did Ted Kennedy face a serious re-election challenge. It came from a young Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, in that most Republican of years, 1994. It came, as well, just three years after Kennedy’s night out […]

Ann Friedman on the epidemic of violence against women and the need to respect survivors’ wishes: This year, violence against women — an issue doggedly championed by feminists but rarely a front-page story — seemed to make headlines in every section of the newspaper. Sports: A hotel worker accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of […]

Tim Fernholz on why size doesn’t matter: Amid last fall’s financial chaos, executives from Wachovia, at the time the fourth-largest commercial bank in the country, had bad news for their regulators: They were broke. Federal officials deliberated and decided Wachovia was so important to the economy that the government had to save it. It was […]

Robert Kuttner explains why industry-dictated health reform will be a political wash: What are our fondest hopes and worst fears for the health legislation now slouching towards the president’s desk? On the plus side, it will cover slightly more than half of America’s uninsured, qualify more of the near-poor for Medicaid, and it may lead […]

Paul Waldman on the Fox affair: This past week, we learned that the White House is “waging war” on Fox News. And what terrifying weapon is the administration wielding? What sinister tactic has the Fox faithful rending their garments? Well, the White House has said that Fox is more a political operation than a news […]

Mark Schmitt explains how a series of roadblocks and compromises shaped the health-care debate — and why the battle doesn’t end when Obama signs a bill: American presidents have tried seven times to bring us into the community of nations that provide health care to all citizens. Seven times the effort failed. More accurately, it […]

Robert Reich on health care and employment needs: Presidents tend to overcompensate for the errors of their predecessors in the same party and in so doing, sow seeds of their own mistakes. Bill Clinton wanted above all to avoid Jimmy Carter’s fate — losing re-election because the economy was heading south on Election Day. So […]

Courtney Martin on the universal need for family-friendly workplaces: “Women are in the labor force — and every other public arena — to stay. So the choice for men is how we will relate to this transformation. Will we be dragged kicking and screaming into the future? Flee to some male-only preserve, circle the masculine […]

Terence Samuel on the war between Fox News and the White House: In normal times, it would make no sense for the White House to engage Fox News Channel in battle. That tactical decision would make as much sense as a dog chasing a crocodile into a swamp — the White House is on Fox’s […]

Steve Fraser on labor relations and military production: The era of Franklin D. Roosevelt transformed the power of workers to achieve a better life. The New Deal facilitated the mass organization of the industrial working class into militant unions and also relied on the state through measures such as the Fair Labor Standards Act and […]