The former Fed chair, who died at the age of 100 this week, deliberately engineered financial markets to be faster and looser. Then they blew up.
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A Talent for Comedy and Liberal Politics
Rob Reiner was a mainstream liberal, devoted to expanding social rights and benefits to people arbitrarily denied them.
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Tom Lehrer and Mort Mintz, RIP
Today on TAP: Both challenged American smugness, one with satire and the other with great journalism.
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Demonizers
David Horowitz bequeathed his rage-filled and slanderous extremism to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and MAGA world.
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Francis and His Critics
Today on TAP: To the American and Catholic right wing, the Pope’s Christian humanism was all but heretical.
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The Exemplary Radical Skeptic
Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.
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Jimmy Carter’s Economic Legacy
He helped turn the Democratic Party away from its New Deal foundations.
