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Back from the Dead: Neoprogressivism in the '90s
These days, you can hear Republican members of Congress touting how much they have spent on programs for children, bragging about how pro-environment they are, recounting their efforts to buck the...
View ArticleDid Clinton Succeed or Fail?
Dear E.J. Dionne:Did Clinton succeed or fail? It depends on how you define success. We need to consider him as a president, as a party man, as a world leader, and as a political figure who we hoped...
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Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brain Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush By Lou Dubose, Jan Reid and Carl M. Cannon, Public Affairs, 256 pages, $15.00 Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made...
View ArticleDemocratic Détente
For two decades, the Democratic party has been riven by sharp ideological arguments. Those debates were in some respects necessary and important. But it's obvious that many of those conflicts are...
View ArticleAfter the Fall of the Right
The Plan: Big Ideas for America by Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed (Public Affairs, 224 pages, $19.95)Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff (Farrar, Straus and...
View ArticleThe Right in the Rearview Mirror
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater by William F. Buckley Jr., Basic Books, 208 pages, $25.95Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein, Scribner, 881...
View ArticlePractical Liberalism Redux
Last October, after the economy's downward spiral became obvious, I closed an e-mail to a friend with the words: "I never thought my obsession with the 1930s would ever be relevant to my life." That...
View ArticleThe Politics of the New Middle America
Among the poll findings that bombarded us after the 2010 elections, three are of overwhelming importance. First, the age composition of the electorate changed radically. In 2008, 18 percent of voters...
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A Radical Pope
This article appears in the Spring 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.Celebrate our 25th Anniversary with us by clicking here for a free download of this special issue. The...
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Leading from the Left
(Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong)Senator Edward Kennedy speaks during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.This book review appears in the Winter 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine....
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