No, progressives, the former president wasn’t some neoliberal corporatist helping the rich. Clinton delivered the strongest economy of the past half century and helped working families.
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Neoliberalism Is Dying. What Comes Next?
History shows that the period between the end of one political order and the beginning of another is a time of maximum danger.
Posted inMain, Political Animal
Trump Abandoned His Infrastructure Plan—So What Now?
Trump is looking to the Democrats for a win on infrastructure. What should they offer?
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal
We Need to Stop Arguing About Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is a distraction because the lessons we can use from the past don’t come from the 1980s and 1990s.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Argument Over Why Clinton Lost is Over. Bernie Was Right. Now What?
It has been a long, knock-down drag-out battle, but the ugly intramural conflict over why Clinton lost to Trump is finally over. New polls and focus groups conducted by Clinton’s own SuperPAC Priorities USA shows that while racism and sexism had some effect, the main driver of Trump’s victory was economic anxiety, after all. The […]
Posted inMagazine, May 2007
A Neoliberal Education
David Brooks thinks neoliberalism is dead. Charles Peters begs to differ.
Posted inMagazine
Act II, Winning an Election
The day that I had my job interview at The Washington Monthly a new issue had just come into the office. In huge type, the cover said, CRIMINALS BELONG IN JAIL. It’s a sign of how much the liberal world has changed that at the time, February 1976, this seemed shocking to me—it was the kind of thing that […]
Posted inMagazine
Neoliberalism Without A Heart
Politicians almost never allow us a glimpse into what’s really going on in their minds. So when Dick Lamm, Colorado’s “Governor Gloom,” does, it’s hard to resist the urge to perform armchair psychoanalysis. This book is about the major problems facing the United States today, but it is elaborately set up as a work of […]
