Lost Generation
Asked on election eve to assess the significance of the coming Democratic defeat, Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tried to portray this election as fairly typical. READ MORE >>
A Lost Generation
Four Myths About the Tea Parties
It's The EPA and OSHA, Stupid!
This is the second in an occasional series examining how Republican control of Congress might affect policy debates in the next two years. READ MORE >>
Foreclose? For Shame.
We sometimes hear that Barack Obama and his top people read The New Republic, but they must not have been paying attention during the campaign when we ran an article titled “History Lesson: FDR Solves the Mortgage Crisis,” by Andrew Jakabovics. If they had done so, they might have proceeded a little differently in dealing with the current crisis and with the controversy over foreclosures. READ MORE >>
Brown Knows
You Say Recession, I Say Depression
The terms “recession” and “depression” were once used to suggest that a downturn was not as bad as a “panic” or “crisis.” In fact, for the first years of his presidency, Herbert Hoover chose to refer to the downturn as a “depression” in an effort to convey that what the country was experiencing was just a temporary indentation. Only in 1931 did Hoover begin to speak of a “Great Depression.” READ MORE >>
Defending ‘The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama’
The Unnecessary Fall
Last week, while talking to Representative Barney Frank about more general subjects, I asked him, as I was leaving, whether he thought it was important for the Obama administration to appoint Elizabeth Warren as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is what he said: READ MORE >>
