Robert Kuttner

“Fool me once, shame on you,” says a wise political maxim. “Fool me twice, shame on me.” In his State of the Union address, President Bush will perpetrate a consumer fraud that makes his feint to the center in the 2000 campaign seem like truth-in-advertising. You’ll recall that the kinder, gentler Bush of the […]

As this election year begins, one can imagine two equally plausible scenarios. In the first, George W. Bush wraps the whole Republican Party in the flag. He outflanks the Democrats’ latent advantage on virtually every domestic issue; the Republicans dominate the agenda and keep control of Congress. In the second scenario, Bush’s wartime popularity fades; […]

Just as Watergate became a metaphor for the Nixon era and Whitewater the right’s symbol for Clinton, Enron is the emblem of the Bush administration’s way of life. Enron is to George W. Bush what Teapot Dome was to Warren G. Harding. Its demise should also signal the collapse of a whole economic paradigm, in […]

Just as Watergate became a metaphor for the Nixon era and Whitewater the right’s symbol for Clinton, Enron is the emblem of the Bush administration’s way of life. Enron is to George W. Bush what Teapot Dome was to Warren G. Harding. Its demise should also signal the collapse of a whole economic paradigm, in […]

For all of the carnival aspect of the Seattle protests, something very important has been stimulated by the World Trade Organization (WTO) sessions. For the first time, a coherent opposition program has begun to challenge the dominant consensus about global trade. For more than a century, the world’s ordinary citizens and their elected leaders have […]