Why is the Bush recovery different from all other recoveries? A slump is a slump is a slump, but it’s during recoveries that the distinctive features of a changing economy become apparent. And our current recovery differs so radically from every other bounce-back since World War II that you have to wonder whether we’re really […]
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Muted Joy
Of course, the United States is safer now that Saddam Hussein is behind bars. Not nearly as safer as we’d be if the Saudi regime were supplanted by a more liberal, less Osama bin Laden-enamored one; or if our government had more diligently implemented the Nunn-Lugar Act and acquired more Soviet warheads that may now […]
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Do Good and Dump W.
I. WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THIS PICTURE? LAS VEGAS — In the middle of his life, Sylvester Garcia decided he’d had enough of the cold and the heat. He’d been a welder in the copper-mining towns of New Mexico for almost a quarter of a century, but, he says, “I got tired of welding, […]
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Wal-Mart Nation
I. WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THIS PICTURE? LAS VEGAS — In the middle of his life, Sylvester Garcia decided he’d had enough of the cold and the heat. He’d been a welder in the copper-mining towns of New Mexico for almost a quarter of a century, but, he says, “I got tired of welding, […]
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Outside Chance
There are two kinds of Democrats in George W. Bush’s America: those who are on the outside and know it, and those who are on the outside and don’t. And the peculiar fascination of the Democratic presidential campaign is to watch the interplay between these two groups. It is the Bush White House and the […]
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Las Vegas as a Workers’ Paradise
From the archives: Why the current battle over holding Nevada caucuses in casinos? It comes down to the power of the hotel worker’s union which transformed dead-end jobs into middle-class careers.
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Unkindest Cut
The Arnold has landed. Over the past two weeks, California’s new chief executive has made abundantly apparent the kind of governor he means to be. During his abbreviated gubernatorial campaign in late summer, Arnold Schwarzenegger ran as something of a Rorschach test. Voters could choose from among a number of Arnolds: the enviro, the tightwad, […]
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Buckeye Bull’s-eye
The Democrats’ scenario for picking up the White House next year looks increasingly like drawing to an inside straight. That doesn’t mean they won’t be able to do it. A number of states could fill their hand. But with the continuing rightward gallop of the South, the Democrats are going to have to perform near-perfectly […]
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Judging Terry
Terry McAuliffe doesn’t know how to shut it off. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), says Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, “is a great salesman; he has this infectious optimism.” Even in the face of abjectly awful election outcomes, McAuliffe hasn’t been able to tone down that optimism. Nuance seems beyond him. On election […]
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Sotto Voce
If defeat is an orphan, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, for which the Senate appropriated $87 billion by a voice vote on Monday, should already go down in the loss column. By rejecting the normal option of a recorded vote, America’s senators decided that they did not want to be held individually accountable for our […]