Republicans are gearing up for a new push to increase military spending, one that will be justified on the basis that America’s military has been “hollowed out,” what with us spending a mere half-trillion dollars a year on wars and preparing for wars. Is there any truth to that argument? To help answer that question, […]
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Sharing the Wealth
Why can’t we broadly distribute the wealth produced from America’s common resource pool? Conservative Alaska manages to do it.
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Why Markets Can’t Price the Priceless
It takes government planning to promote the rational conservation and use of water.
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The Libertarian Delusion
The free-market fantasy stands discredited by events. The challenge now: redeeming effective and democratic government
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A Talent for Storytelling
Rick Perlstein tells how Reagan imagined his way into the American psyche.
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Did Koch Brothers Just Doom America to a Future of Crumbling Roads and Tunnels?
First, their minions called for Chris Christie to cancel a much-needed rail project, and he did. Now they’ve set their sights on Congress to do much the same.
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Did Koch Brothers Just Doom America to a Future of Crumbling Roads and Tunnels?
Posted by guest-blogger and American Prospect writing fellow Rachel M. Cohen. It was never going to be easy for the Republican-controlled Congress to pass an increase to the federal gas tax-a tax that finances the Highway Trust Fund and pays for roads and bridges around the country. Last raised in 1993 to 18.4 cents per […]
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Photo of the Day, Budget Madness Edition
View image | gettyimages.com You aren’t going to get much more Washington than this. That’s President Obama’s new budget (and yes, they still print them out on paper), and it seems as though the assembled crowd of photojournalists is anticipating that any second, the documents are going to burst into tiny fireworks, out of which […]
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Blind to the Future
Chris Christie and the Republican default on public investment.Â
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‘Housing First’ Policy for Addressing Homelessness Hamstrung By Funding Issues
The new approach may spring from good intentions, but is undermined by a lack of affordable housing stock.
