Joshua Green

Frank Savage’s record is appalling, even by the standards of Enron board members. He is a director of the investment firm Alliance Capital Management (he also chaired one of its divisions), which until recently was Enron’s largest institutional investor. Alliance was nearly the last to get out of Enron: The firm bought large blocks of […]

While the nation focuses on the still-contested presidential election Ralph Nader threw into question, the effect his campaign had on Democrats running for Congress has gone largely unnoticed. From the outset of his effort, Nader argued that even if his candidacy stole votes from Al Gore, it would mobilize progressive voters to support Democratic congressional […]

Last fall Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller taped a series of 11 lectures and sold them to the Concord University School of Law, a virtual university founded by Kaplan Inc., the test-preparation company. Miller was stunned when Harvard administrators told him he had violated university policy by providing course material to another school without […]

Even as American voters have entertained the prospect of electing a “compassionate conservative” as president, there is little evidence the public is in a conservative mood. In fact, an unusual poll conducted this summer suggests that Americans hold liberal views on important taxing-and-spending issues. The nonprofit Center on Policy Attitudes joined with the Internet company […]

George W. Bush has takenpains to emphasize that his plans for faith-based initiatives are broad enough toencompass all religious sentiment. But if the experience of one college newspapereditor is an indicator, tolerance has its limits. The point was made clearrecently when the U.S. Secret Service paid a visit to the editorial offices ofthe Stony Brook […]

In 1956 a young seminary student named Charles Curran bet a conservative classmate that Adlai Stevenson would beat Dwight Eisenhower in the fall presidential election. When Stevenson went down to defeat that November, Curran’s classmate, Edward Egan, took great pleasure in exacting payment. “He made me read Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind,” Curran, now a […]

If Democrats win back the House of Representatives, their slim majority won’t adequately reflect the magnitude of the change. The list of ranking Democrats in line to chair key committees reads like a who’s who of progressive congressional leadership: Henry Waxman (Government Reform), George Miller (Education and the Workforce), John Conyers (Judiciary), and Charles Rangel […]

G eorge W. Bush convinced many swing voters that he was “a uniter, not a divider.” He pledged to work with Republicans and Democrats to change the tone of partisan rancor in Washington. But Washington is not Austin, and the sense of a stolen election has strengthened Democratic unity in a closely divided Congress. Any […]