I’ve embarked on reading way too many really long books lately, but the one I just started is going to be a treasure, regardle I’ve embarked on reading way too many really long books lately, but the one I just started is going to be a treasure, regardless of its 614 pages (plus source notes). […]
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Although the Occupy Movement helped focus attention on income inequality in the US, the reality of just how wide the gap has grown sometimes got lost in tax-policy arguments about Warren Buffett’s secretary. But the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances released yesterday showed that the recent financial crisis left median American families in 2010 […]
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NEWS BLOG: Walker’s road map to silencing the Democratic Party
Some Democrats are reacting to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s victory Tuesday by playing down any connection to President Obama’s re-election chances. Conservatives couldn’t be happier. They say Walker’s win proves that the majority of Wisconsin’s voters agree with conservatives’ message about smaller government. But something else happened in Wisconsin that Americans should be discussing: the […]
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Washing away the blue-state blues
“I’ll never believe that Kerry didn’t take Ohio.” That’s Mary Ellen Blanchard speaking and tonight’s a Thursday, the night she and a half dozen to a dozen local self-described liberals congregate at Monty’s Korner to talk politics and down a few drinks while they’re at it. Today Democrat Wade Norwood has announced his candidacy for […]
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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world
To many New Yorkers, it was no shock to hear that their state legislature is dysfunctional. And not just dysfunctional, but the most dysfunctional in the nation. To the Democratic and Republican leaders of the legislature, though, the indictment — contained in a study by the BrennanCenter for Justice at New YorkUniversity’s School of […]
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Backwards and forwards
The best you can say about 2003 is that it isn’t 2004, the year the far right will gorge itself on power, while liberals-moderates will choke on their own shortcomings. For the moment, however, the realities of 2003 are all we’ve got. And as I look back over America’s recently traveled roads, it looks […]
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Roads to nowhere?
Roads, unquestionably, tie a community together. And no more striking example exists of the division between city and county in this community, say Democrats in the county legislature, than the lej’s decision to stop pavement-marking services in the city. “It’s more evidence of the county and the suburbs basically treating the city as a […]
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Your government at work on the air
Having grown into a cluster of cable channels, C-SPAN has become a semi-official American institution. Not because it offers the most consistently fascinating, exciting programming, of course — but because it engages viewers with what you might call “reality-check” TV. Think of routines like the latest “White House Press Briefing With Ari Fleischer” or “gavel […]
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Two men in a room
It’s been tough enough for state lawmakers to agree on their budgets through closed-door negotiations between three men in a room. Now imagine two men arguing in a room and a third sitting in his executive chamber, moistening his veto stamp in anticipation of nixing whatever compromise the two finally come up with. That […]
