The formula of the deficit hawks will bring us a deeper recession, stunted social outlay, and a much tougher road back to fiscal balance.
Greg Anrig
Greg Anrig, vice president of programs at The Century Foundation, is the author of The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (John Wiley & Sons).
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Reform Amid Fiscal Ruin
In some states, progressive leadership and grass-roots activism have turned crisis into opportunity for long-deferred tax reform.
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“Strategic Deficit” Redux
Republicans create deficits to foil progressivism. Do we have to learn that lesson again?
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Four Ways States Could Squander the Stimulus
Implementation of Obama’s stimulus bill is largely in the hands of the state governments. Here are four ways they might derail it.
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False Accusation
Blaming public housing policy for an increase in crime misses the point — the problem is a lack of true support for equitable housing and economic policy.
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The Problem With Conservatism Is Conservatism
Conservatives fail to understand that replacing the government with free-market forces simply hasn’t worked in practice.
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Obama Praises the Wrong Conservatives
Barack Obama says Republicans have some good ideas, but he is missing an opportunity to point out the difference between traditional conservative governance and the deliberately destructive agenda of today’s conservative movement.
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The Return of Newtonian Governance
Run to the bookstore! Newt Gingrich has a new book whose central theme is, unsurprisingly, that “bureaucracy” predisposes government to fail, in contrast to an inherently more effective and efficient private sector.
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Who Strangled the FDA?
Charting the phases of the FDA’s decline lays bare the responsibility borne by movement conservatism.