The claim that the freest market produces the best economic and social outcome is the centerpiece of the conservative political resurgence. But without government intervention, the market can destroy a lot of things–including itself.
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Constitutional Amendmentitis
The rash of amendments being proposed by Republicans has profound — and dangerous — implications for our system of government.
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Health Reform, Meet Tax Reform
The current tax treatment of health benefits makes no sense. A feasible strategy for health reform should now put tax reform at its center. But which kind?
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Sex, Lies, and The Scarlet Letter
O nce when I was about nine, I wandered into my aunt’s kitchen during Thanksgiving to find all the grown-up women whispering, hugging, and crying. When they explained to me what was going on (Auntie Cookie had just found out she was going to have another baby and they were crying from happiness), they confirmed […]
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Perrier in the Newsroom
There was a day not far distant, you know, just before World War II, when nearly all of us news people, although perhaps white collar by profession, earned blue-collar salaries. We were part of the “common people.” We suffered the same budgetary restraints, the same bureaucratic indignities, waited in the same lines, suffered the same […]
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State of the Debate: The Sale of a Generation
Generation X is a hot marketing concept, used as a hook to sell everything from condoms to cars. Can right-wingers use it to sell their ideas?
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Liberalism’s Third Crisis
This isn’t the first time liberals have faced reverses and needed to reframe their ideas.
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Clinton’s Not-So-Good Deeds
Richard Rothstein may be right that Clinton is the best liberals can hope for in our present institutional environment (“Friends of Bill?” TAP, Winter 1995, Number 20), but many who have fallen away from Clinton feel that he failed to test the potential of liberalism and populism, and in so doing contributed decisively to the […]
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Who Owns the Future?
They claim to be riding a wave of historical change. The wave is global in its reach and unstoppable in its force. Those who get in the way are representatives of an old, obsolete order; they may put up a fight, but they will be beaten in the inevitable transformation. So Newt Gingrich and other […]
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A New Conversation: How to Rebuild the Democratic Party
Let’s face it: The Democratic Party got into some bad relationships. It doesn’t need a new message so much as a whole new conversation with the American people.
