Harold Meyerson

The Democratic wing of the Democratic Party convenes here today at a national conference sponsored by the liberal Campaign for America’s Future. The gathering comes not a moment too soon, not only because the party’s progressive base needs to assert and renew its principles, but also because it has come under assault lately from its […]

For a moment there, it almost looked as if the Democrats were getting their act together. Leaders of the key Democratic constituency groups have begun meeting to develop a strategy and the wherewithal for winning the battleground states in the 2004 presidential election. On May 8 the president of Emily’s List, Ellen Malcolm, hosted a […]

Europe wants an army. Tony Blair wants a European rapid deployment force that can work through NATO in concert with the United States to build “one polar power” that spans the Atlantic. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder and the leaders of Belgium, Greece and Luxembourg — the continent’s leading critics of the war with Iraq — […]

So whose books were more cooked — Enron’s accounts of its financial doings or the administration’s prewar reports on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction? Enron’s books didn’t lack for detail. They were simply and deliberately fictitious. They documented all manner of energy sales and swaps that in fact never transpired but that had to be […]

The problem with socialism, noted Oscar Wilde, that most social of socialists, was that it took “too many evenings.” It’s the left that’s always been committed to the permanence of politics, to continual deliberation and decision-making. Conservatism, by contrast, promises fewer evenings lost by leaving more decisions to the market and fewer to the realm […]

I. THE LOGIC OF MOBILIZATION. “Events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision,” the president said in beginning his Monday night de facto declaration of war. The only decision that mattered, however — that of going to war — was being made nowhere near Iraq but right in the White House. That […]