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.
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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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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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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 […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Abandoned Surgery: Business and the Failure of Health Reform
Business once seemed a potential ally in national health reform. Then it turned around and became instrumental in reform’s defeat. The inside story of what happened and why.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hidden Kingdom: Disney’s Political Blueprint
Walt Disney dubbed one of his attractions the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), but the name might better describe his design for private government.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Our NAIRU Limit: The Governing Myth of Economic Policy
It’s now a familiar story: The Fed raises interest rates to slow the economy. But new research suggests that we are needlessly sacrificing prosperity on the altar of false economic assumptions.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Contract and the Consumer
The conservatives haven’t made “tort reform” a crusade to stop a flood of products liability litigation. There is no such flood. This is a straight payoff to their benefactors.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Behind the Numbers: Class Dismissed?
The Democrats have hinged their political strategy upon the empirically shaky notion that most Americans consider themselves middle class. The consequences are not just rhetorical.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Gingrich’s Time Bomb: The Consequences of the Contract
Did anyone read the fine print? The Contract with America has been devilishly constructed with provisions that will set off a fiscal — and social — explosion years from now.
