Even baby boom liberals who spent their youth in rebellion against the tranquilized 1950s have become homesick for its virtues.
Mark Schmitt
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“Kids First” Politics, Round Two
Progressives now have a chance to push a political agenda favoring investment in
children. What can the second wave of children’s politics learn from the first?
Posted inEducation in America
16 YEARS OF EDUCATION.
Biden: “Start two years earlier and guarantee two years of college.” This is the kind of clearly stated principle — not programs — that can open up the conversation. And Democrats often get stuck on questions of college education because they forget about community colleges — the gateway to higher ed for more than half […]
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SCHEDULERS ROCK!
It’s a minor point, but Ann Friedman notes that Hillary Clinton‘s campaign has more women staffers because she “promotes lower-level staffers.” She quotes Garance: “No other candidate can say, for example, that their campaign is being managed by their female former scheduler.” I don’t know a lot about campaigns, but I know one thing: the […]
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The Moral Equivalent of Optimism
It’s a propitious moment to revisit failed 1970s’ attempts to combine the aspiration for a better future with a sense of shared commitment and engagement in building that future, and this time, to get it right.
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New Politics Gets Newer
Political reform has a deep history within the progressive tradition, and the last election and recent debates suggest that reform in the larger sense may have its moment.
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MANIFESTLY UNJUST.
MANIFESTLY UNJUST. I have been mostly sympathetic to Larry Craig until today. It’s not easy to be a gay man of his generation and background, I don’t think the police should be running entrapment operations in men’s rooms, and I think he made a mistake in pleading guilty. I don’t even care, as Matt seems […]
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NEW DEMOCRATS IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. Garance
NEW DEMOCRATS IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. Garance‘s post about the unpredictability of who will participate in the Iowa caucuses bring to mind another dimension of both Iowa and New Hampshire that has a potentially important effect on both the nominating process and the general election: Both are states with enormous numbers of new Democrats. […]
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Every Fight Tells a Story
Democrats are trying to keep political conflicts small and manageable, while Republicans keep trying to make them bigger.
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AS GOOD, IF NOT BETTER.
AS GOOD, IF NOT BETTER.One of the reasons that Michael Bloomberg is mayor of New York goes back to the moment in the 2001 campaign when Democratic candidate Mark Green said that he would have done “as good if not better” a job of handling 9/11 as Rudy Giuliani, a quote which Bloomberg used to […]