After a decade of court-packing, now is no time to pretend the courts are apolitical.
Politics
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Damaged Goods: Before Reinventing Government, Clinton Needs to Repair It
T he debris of Reaganism is scattered across Bill Clinton’s domestic agenda: Environmentalism may be slow to take hold at the Interior Department because friends of industry have “burrowed in” to the bureaucracy. Sound industrial policy will call for better information than the Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission have to offer. Crafting welfare reform […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Politics of Repudiation 1992: Edging Toward Upheaval
Not a major realignment, but ominous rumblings.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Whose Body Politic?
The boundaries between public and private are murkier than ever.
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The Limits of Teledemocracy
Some uses of the electronic media could enrich politics. Most recent proposals, however, are video games at best and Bonapartism at worst.
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Divided They Govern
Divided government isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
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Passion, Memory, and Politics, 1992
F rom its founding nearly three years ago, The American Prospect has sought to help reconstruct a plausible and persuasive liberalism. This issue’s cluster of articles concerned with a public investment strategy for economic growth exemplifies that purpose: substantive, detailed thinking about how to solve the nation’s problems, rather than symbolic gestures. Yet, as this […]
