Harold Meyerson

If the House and Senate conferees assembling this week to negotiate a prescription drug benefit and Medicare reform bill do in fact come up with a final product, the only thing certain is that they will have built a house divided against itself. The bills that the House and Senate have sent to the conference […]

Antonin Scalia is raging against the coming of the light. Scalia’s dissent from last week’s epochal Supreme Court decision striking down Texas’ anti-sodomy statute confirms Ayatollah Antonin’s standing as the intellectual leader of the forces arrayed against equality and modernity in the United States. In establishing the deep historical roots of anti-gay sentiment in America, […]

Americans may have divided over the war in Iraq this spring, but one thing that brought them together was their health coverage. It was shrinking. From state to state and sector to sector, job-based health insurance either covered less or cost more or — the insurance companies were loath to force a choice on us […]

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 […]