Virtually without challenge, Pete Peterson claims to be a champion of the middle class. But his proposals would actually cut taxes for the rich and benefits for middle-income people.
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The Consequences of Single Motherhood
Children of single-parent families suffer measurable harm. But the problems of the family are far more complex than the popular debate often suggests.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Self-Fulfilling Prophets: Inflated Zeal at the Federal Reserve
Greenspan’s rate increases needlessly threaten to abort the recovery. A more accountable central bank is long overdue.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Instant Replay: Three Strikes Was the Right Call
Instant Replay Three Strikes Was the Right Call John J. DiIulio, Jr. Jerome H. Skolnick’s essay on crime policy (“Wild Pitch: `Three Strikes, You’re Out’ And Other Bad Calls on Crime,” Spring 1994), omitted some important facts and ignored several valid arguments. Echoing the anti-incarceration consensus within criminology, Skolnick asserts that life without parole for […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
The New Dialectic
Modern economic life crosses national boundaries to form a web of intricate association that retards aggressive and regressive nationalism. Trade, investment, enterprise, technology, communications, and travel are today relentlessly transnational. Yet this same globalism undermines the capacity of the nation-state to stabilize its economy. From this paradox comes the first of the dialectics of our […]
Posted inWorking in America
The Skills Myth
Almost everyone seems to believe that workers are losing income because they lack the proper skills. But there’s a better explanation: they’ve lost bargaining power.
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Seismic Stimulus: The California Quake’s Creative Destruction
The earth literally had to move to jolt Congress into passing a stiumulus package — and to lift California out of recession.
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Orphans of Separatism: The Painful Politics of Transracial Adoption
Liberals’ misguided efforts to respect race may harm children — and deepen racial intolerance.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Talent and the Winner-Take-All Society
Rising inequality reflects the growing importance of winner-take-all markets.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game
For those who always thought public policy was a game anyone could play, it finally is. But beware of what the game assumes.
