The triumphs, failures, and might-have-beens of Jimmy Carter.
Walter Shapiro
Walter Shapiro, a former Washington Monthly editor, is covering his 11th presidential campaign for The New Republic and is a lecturer in political science at Yale.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Unintended Consequences of Electoral Reform
California and Maine show how well-meaning efforts to encourage moderation can undermine political parties.
Posted inJune/July/August 2016, Magazine
Tilting at Windmills
A Trump by any other name … Mitt Romney: An overdue appreciation … Confessions of a hopeless book hoarder
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Campaign-Industrial Complex
Political reform will never happen until candidates and donors realize they’re being ripped off.
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The Running Men
During my quarter century of covering presidential campaigns, I have found that the most telling glimpses of the candidates have come when they were just beginning to step into the cauldron of ambition. This is the time when their lines were still unscripted and their public veneers hung loosely like a suit that they had […]
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Young Gun
In truth, Kerrey could never have been elected president. Not in 1992 when he ran a diffident and unfocused primary campaign against Bill Clinton, not in 2000 when he yielded to the realities of political fund-raising, and not in 2004 had he stayed in the Senate. For Kerrey, who had lost part of a leg […]
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TWM
As an occasional participant in big-think conferences bemoaning the downward drift of contemporary journalism from its former Olympian heights, I can furrow my brow, sadly shake my head and invoke the sainted memory of Walter Lippmann and Edward R. Murrow with the best of them. But as adept as I am at the public rituals […]
