How America’s forbidding political landscape made health care reform impossible for Clinton and nearly so for Obama.
Bill Clinton
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2011, Politics
What Happens in the Campaign Stays in the Campaign
The 2012 presidential race is entering what might be called the “full public colonoscopy” phase, when the press really begins digging into every nook and cranny of the leading candidates’ public and private lives looking for scandal material. Rick Perry, the new guy, has taken the brunt so far, with stories of his unfortunately named […]
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It’s Not As Bad As You Think It Is
One of President Clinton’s main challenges in his second term is going to be trying to move the United States away from a self-conception as a nation in crisis. It’s a problem partly of his own making. In his 1995 State of the Union address, for example, delivered right on the heels of the big […]
Posted inMarch 1995
Usually First, Not Always Classy
The best of Clinton, the worst of Clinton: A new biography carefully traces both back to their roots
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How Washington Tries to Strangle Even the Best Ideas
The inside story of how a bill became a law shows how the capital’s self-interested forces nearly derailed one of the most important reforms since the GI Bill.
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Middle Class Hero
Letting his ego out for a trot, Kevin Phillips begins Boiling Point by observing that during last year’s presidential campaign, Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Tom Harkin, Mario Cuomo, Jerry Brown, Lloyd Bentsen, Douglas Wilder, and Dick Gephardt all demonstrated that they had either read his last book, The Politics of Rich and Poor, “or drawn […]
