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Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for... →
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile... →
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when... →
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is... →
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In... →
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to... →
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing... →
We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be... →
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
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