The Obama administration is trying to help immigrant students brought here illegally as kids get into college. GOP-controlled states have other ideas.
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Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013, Politics
Reformish Conservatives
Meet the handful of conservative writers who are suggesting, respectfully, that the GOP change its policies.
Posted inHealth Care, Magazine, March/April 2013
The Republican Case for Waste in Health Care
Conservatives love to apply “cost-benefit analysis” to government programs—except in health care. In fact, working with drug companies and warning of “death panels,” they slipped language into Obamacare banning cost-effectiveness research. Here’s how that happened, and why it can’t stand.
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2012, Politics
George W. Bush, On the Ballot Again
One early summer day in 2000 I was summoned to the Oval Office along with several other White House staffers to get instructions from President Bill Clinton on what he wanted to say in his upcoming speech at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, a speech I was assigned to cowrite. But the president […]
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 inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2012
Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny?
An academic’s doomed attempt to explain why there are no good right-wing comedians.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2012
A Malevolent Forrest Gump
Strom Thurmond’s loathsomeness on race obscures his larger role: he was there at all the major choke points of modern conservative history.
Posted inMagazine, Politics, September/October 2012
Party Animals
Any chance Romney might govern as a moderate? For a clue, look at his senior staff.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Ascent of Chris Christie
George W. Bush nicknamed him “Big Boy.” Will Mitt Romney call him “my running mate”?
