How Republicans Made Congress Stupid
Congress
Posted inJune/July/August 2014, Magazine, Politics
Working the GOP’s Weak Spot
How Barack Obama is following Bill Clinton’s minimum wage game plan to try to hold onto the Senate.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, November/December 2013
Our All-Purpose Fill-in-the-Blanks Senate Eulogy
In 1945, the average age in the Senate was fifty-nine. Today, it’s sixty-two. As our democracy becomes a gerontocracy, it raises all sorts of policy challenges. But for speechwriters, it raises a unique one. Over the course of the Senate’s history, 299 sitting senators have died in office—one death every nine months. That’s a lot […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, K-12, Magazine, November/December 2013
How to Build a Better Launch Pad for Young Americans
A commonsense plan that Congress can pass now.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2013
Why Agencies Are Always Missing Their Deadlines
Even the best mainstream news stories on the regulatory process tend to mention the number of deadlines an agency has missed as if that’s an indication of its performance. But that kind of coverage is actually an indication of just how little we know about what’s going on behind the scenes. For one, deadlines are […]
Posted inMagazine, March/April 2013
The Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan
How “bracket creep” (the good kind) could make the long-term fiscal outlook better than everyone thinks.
Posted inMagazine, Politics, September/October 2012
Tilting at Windmills
Guilty Party “G.O.P. Edge As Dynamics Shift in House Races,” read a frightening headline in the New York Times this summer. How can this be happening after a record of ceaseless obstructionism by congressional Republicans? Much of the explanation, of course, rests on the media’s far too frequent reliance on blaming Congress rather than Republicans […]
Posted inUncategorized
Governing Under the Influence
Washington alcoholics: their aides
protect them, the media shields them.
