The Tea Party is more flagrant, but the austerity movement is more insidious.
Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. His latest book is Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America. Follow Bob at his site, robertkuttner.com, and on Twitter.
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A New White House Economic Strategy?
The plan would put deficit reduction ahead of job creation.
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The Private-Equity Time Bomb
Private buyouts have sucked the value out of hundreds of firms, leaving them in debt and at risk.
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Banking on Presidential Leadership
Obama’s engagement salvaged health reform.
Can his personal intervention achieve what’s needed
on financial reform?
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Give ‘Em Hell, Barry
What Barack Obama can learn from Harry Truman’s inspired use of partisanship.
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Game Changer
It takes presidential leadership to break through our system’s obstructionism.
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A Second Opinion
Robert Kuttner responds to Paul Starr’s endorsement of the excise tax on health care premiums.
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American Taliban
The marriage between religious fundamentalism and market conservatism is as strong as ever.
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Fiscal Folly
We need more deficit spending on public investment and jobs now, then deficit reduction once recovery comes.
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Playing Ourselves for Fools
The trading system America sold the world is killing U.S. industry. Here’s a better way.
