Democrats need to become the champions of working people—Black people included.
Elaine Kamarck
Posted inPolitics
No Time to Go Wobbly on Welfare Reform
August 22, 2011, marked the fifteenth anniversary of the signing of the welfare reform law by President Bill Clinton. On that occasion, a number of liberal publications and Web sites, including the American Prospect, Daily Kos, Think Progress, and Firedoglake, ran pieces that all made essentially the same argument: welfare reform has failed. As evidence, […]
Posted inMagazine
Decline of American Greatness
Most American presidents have understood this. Ronald Reagan raised taxes to quell the mounting deficits caused by his previous tax cuts and defense increases. Further budget discipline by Reagan’s successors, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, left America at the end of the 20th century with a booming economy, unrivaled military and diplomatic power, and […]
