Good policy can be smart politics — that’s the idea behind this magazine.
Mark Schmitt
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What Will a Republican Majority Do Next?
We know Speaker Boehner’s opening moves. But what will the GOP do after those fail?
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The Senate That Byrd Made.
There’s much to be said about the life and career of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who represented all the possibilities for change that American life promises and delivers too rarely: Lifted from abject poverty to success and power through hard work; self-taught, to the point of erudition; an unhesitant racist who by the 1970s shed […]
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Failed States
From Bear Sterns to BP — there is a reason “bailout” has become the defining word of the era.
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Boring Politics, Please
The American political system wasn’t built to handle showdowns, culture wars, crises of legitimacy, or bids for total power.
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Learning About the Left From Glenn Beck
The figures on his blackboard aren’t the “wizards” or “masterminds” of current politics. But they are real figures in the history of liberalism.
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Sucked into the ’60s?
I read this piece by Matt Bai last night and willed myself to ignore it until I saw an actual copy of the Times this afternoon and realized that it’s on Page 1, above the fold! Bai claims that the episodes involving Senate candidates Richard Blumenthal and Rand Paul are evidence that we haven’t gotten […]
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Liberalism’s Mayor
Recent reassessments of John V. Lindsay’s years as mayor of New York challenge familiar assumptions about the 1960s and 1970s.
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Did Good Politics Lead to Bad Policy?
In a Washington Post column yesterday, Ruth Marcus laid the blame for Arizona’s worst law at the feet of its best — the recent anti-immigrant law, she said, was passed in part because of the state’s 12-year-old system of public financing of elections. How could this be? Marcus says that the public-financing program known as […]