When I talk to myself, I sound like an old Jew. This is not because I am all too quickly actually becoming an old Jew, mind you. It’s that the voice I use to argue with and amuse myself is my grandparents’ — all of them Russian Jews who came to America about 100 years […]
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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The Right’s Denial
On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial. On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial. Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only because they misplaced their ideology. “[T]hey were punished not […]
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The Right’s Denial
On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial. On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial. Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only because they misplaced their ideology. “[T]hey were punished not […]
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The Fair-Trade Election
The architect built his house of straw. The foundation — the Republican base — may have retained its brick-like solidity in support of its candidates Tuesday, just as Karl Rove predicted. But the house itself — and the House itself — was blown to smithereens, with massive shifts among moderate and independent […]
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LUGAR AND SANDERS WIN.
LUGAR AND SANDERS WIN. We now have one Republican and one socialist elected to the Senate. –Harold Meyerson
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LAST MINUTE PREDICTIONS….
LAST MINUTE PREDICTIONS. Ever the optimist, I’ll say the Dems will pick up 32 in the House and 6 in the Senate (RI, PA, OH, VA, MO, MT). I could, of course, be wrong. –Harold Meyerson
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Action, Meet Reaction
The North, it seems, shall rise again. The North, it seems, shall rise again. Most of the House seats that the Democrats are expected to take from Republicans are in the Northeast and industrial Midwest, heartland of the old Republican Party of Lincoln, McKinley, and Eisenhower. Many of the Republicans holding […]
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“Course” Correction
The president has fled the field from “stay the course,” signaling not just the unwinnability of his war but the bankruptcy of his political strategy. For as the president and his party grope for an alternative plan of action in Iraq, Karl Rove’s bright line between Republican resolve and Democratic defeatism has […]
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No Justice, No Growth
On the morning of June 22, 1995, to the total astonishment of the people working and walking on Hollywood Boulevard — the sales clerks of a hundred shlock emporiums, the stoners, the runaways, and the crowds of ever-bewildered tourists who had trekked to the heart of Hollywood in search of glamour only to find one […]
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How Capitalism Works Now
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle (Alfred A. Knopf, 283 pages, $25.95) All Together Now: Common Sense For a Fair Economy by Jared Bernstein (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 154 pages, $12.00) America Back on Track by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Viking, 210 pages, $24.95) When it comes […]
