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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting... →
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that... →
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and... →
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated... →
Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the... →
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful -... →
For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned... →
Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his... →
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal... →
Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo'... →
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica... →
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama... →
To be sure, we should all eat right, brush our teeth, and cut down on sweets, but that will hardly help us if we're born with a condition that... →