How we might shape Social Security and Medicare for the future
William Galston
William A. Galston is a senior fellow and Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
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How Big Government Got Its Groove Back
The New Democrats’ intellectual architect argues that today’s economy requires an expanded role for government and a commitment to ensuring economic growth benefits everyone.
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Rules of Attack
Did September 11 signal the end of liberal internationalism — the polestar of American foreign policy from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton — as the Bush administration claims?
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Is the Common Good Good?
“Party in Search of a Notion,” the essay by Prospect editor Michael Tomasky, provoked a tremendous response from readers, other writers, and political leaders. Press attention included a front-page article in The New York Times on May 9. To keep the conversation going, we invited five people to write responses. The ideologically diverse […]
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The Democracy Solution
Not long after George W. Bush delivered his June 2002 speech severing relations with Yasir Arafat, a White House reporter wondered whether Natan Sharansky had become one of the president’s speechwriters. By the time of President Bush’s second inaugural, in January 2005, reporters no longer had to guess at Sharansky’s influence. The previous November, the […]
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Perils of Preemptive War
On June 1 at West Point, President George W. Bush set forth a new doctrine for U.S. security policy. The successful strategies of the Cold War era, he declared, are ill suited to national defense in the 21st century. Deterrence means nothing against terrorist networks; containment will not thwart unbalanced dictators possessing weapons of mass […]
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Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files II
Bowling Alone” was published in January 1995. Seldom has a thesis moved so quickly from scholarly obscurity to conventional wisdom. By January 1996 the Washington Post was featuring a six-part series of front-page articles on the decline of trust, and Beltway pundits had learned the vocabulary of social capital. While the debate over the accuracy […]
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Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files II
UNSOLVED MYSTERIESThe Tocqueville Files II “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” by William A. Galston“The Downside of Social Capital,” by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Landolt
