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The Nationalism We Need
There are two faces of American nationalism-one negative, one positive. The negative face wants to block trade, deter immigrants, and eschew global responsibilities. The positive one wants to reduce poverty among the nation’s children, ensure that everyone within America has decent health care, and otherwise improve the lives of all our people. Both give priority […]
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Up From 1994
S ince Franklin Roosevelt, the central liberal credo has been the use of government to benefit ordinary people. That premise is now battered–fiscally, politically, ideologically. In 1994, swing voters rejected both the concept and the party of government. The 1994 midterm election is not yet the epochal realignment that prefigures a new governing coalition and […]
