Progressive organizations are finally becoming more conscious about setting the agenda and fighting for a worldview.
Mark Schmitt
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“LENINIST STRATEGY” 2.0
Yesterday Bob Kuttner drew attention to the response put out by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to “Taking Back Our Fiscal Future” (TBOFF), a bit of deficit-hawk propaganda put out by the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and a couple other think tanks. What’s interesting to me is the question of how the […]
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KARL AT THE COUNTRY CLUB
In reporting Karl Rove’s attempt to find an analogy that Republicans could relate to to describe Barack Obama — “You know this guy…he’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by” — ABC’s […]
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On Our Own
Liberal institutions that once imitated conservative ones are now far surpassing their role models. The quick-moving, imaginative progressive think tank now makes its conservative analogue look like a threadbare brand name from the 1970s.
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Did Hillary Crack the Working-Class Code?
In the waning months of the campaign Hillary Clinton found a new and startlingly effective way to talk about the economy. She may have lost, but her novel economic argument will live on.
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KICKING THE LOBBYISTS OUT?
I noticed something odd in two articles I read over the last couple days. First, in I noticed something odd in two articles I read over the last couple days. First, in Jeff Toobin‘s highly recommended New Yorker piece on the gleeful sleazeball Roger Stone, there’s this anecdote at the end: [Stone’s] only prior dealing […]
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Battle of the Budget Slideshows
Budget hawks are trying to convince the public that we face an unavoidable choice between cutting social programs and budgetary Armageddon. But in reality, our budgetary problems stem from our out-of-control health care system.
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Can Identity Politics Save the Right?
In response to their standing in the polls, the GOP is falling back on identity politics, branding itself as the party of “Real Americans.” How far can this take them?
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What Does Not Change
Forget what happened in Kentucky and Oregon. What’s most telling in the Democratic primaries are the things that don’t change: More voters, more volunteers.
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Maverick or Manueverer?
John McCain has enjoyed a reputation for “authenticity” because of his commitment to “reform.” But this reputation is evidence of Washington’s sadly twisted standards, not McCain’s virtue.