After winning control of Congress in November 1994, the Republican leadership, working closely with business lobbyists and policy groups, launched an ambitious effort to roll back a century of reform legislation-from the food and drug laws of the Progressive Era to the New Deal’s Social Security Act to the workplace and environmental regulation of the […]
John B. Judis
John B. Judis is an editor at large at Talking Points Memo and the author, most recently, of The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now About the Left.
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Science Fiction
George W. Bush is getting lots of credit for giving the National Institutes of Health (NIH) their biggest boost ever, but his increases in spending on research in health care and defense are obscuring drastic cuts in all other kinds of scientific research. When you look closely at Bush’s science budget, what you discover is […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Abandoned Surgery: Business and the Failure of Health Reform
Business once seemed a potential ally in national health reform. Then it turned around and became instrumental in reform’s defeat. The inside story of what happened and why.
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The Pressure Elite: Inside the Narrow World of Advocacy Group Politics
Today’s advocacy groups are remotely democratic—all too remotely.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Citizen Kawasaki: Race, Unions, and the Japanese Employer in America
Some economists have hailed the new model of management and employee relations that Japanese corporations practice at home and are allegedly bringing to America. The story of Kawasaki isn’t so encouraging.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Conservative Crackup
Conservative intellectuals are now facing some of their toughest adversaries ever—each other.