The GOP has owned it since Nixon. Democrats would have to return to the New Deal to recapture it
By Michael Lind Nov 23, 2009
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Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around?
By Michael Lind
November 16, 2009
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers: Each ushered in a new American era
By Michael Lind
November 9, 2009
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The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is not creeping socialism. It's creeping subsidism
By Michael Lind
October 26, 2009
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The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis
By Michael Lind
October 19, 2009
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The jobs of tomorrow are not what you'd expect
By Michael Lind
November 2, 2009
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Neither terrorists nor rogue states like North Korea are likely to use nuclear weapons. Here's why
By Michael Lind
October 13, 2009
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The 18th century's patron saint of free markets shares his surprising views about Barack Obama and the U.S. economy
By Michael Lind
October 6, 2009
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Obama has the chance to end our Cold War hangover, and start an era where the U.S. is not the sole global policeman
By Michael Lind
September 29, 2009
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I was once a young neoconservative. The word meant something different then, before it was hijacked by extremists
By Michael Lind
September 22, 2009
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Diversity is healthcare reform's worst enemy. White America has never
liked social insurance for people of color
By Michael Lind
September 15, 2009
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The right says the answer is rich people, not workers -- who are wealth destroyers
By Michael Lind
September 7, 2009
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Why can't Democrats mobilize the public for healthcare reform? Blame the demagogy gap
By Michael Lind
September 1, 2009
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Hey Democrats: Can liberal interest groups and social elites really form the basis of a successful political party?
By Michael Lind
August 25, 2009
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The president should have heeded the Florentine's advice before he embarked on healthcare reform
By Michael Lind
August 18, 2009
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The left is crazy to insult white Southerners as a group
By Michael Lind
August 11, 2009
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The president is a prisoner of the cult of neoliberalism
By Michael Lind
August 4, 2009
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"Birthers" say Obama isn't "natural born" and can't be president. Let's make their whole delusional argument moot
By Michael Lind
July 28, 2009
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We need universal, citizen-based healthcare. It doesn't look like Obama and Congress are ready to give it to us
By Michael Lind
July 21, 2009
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History shows that piecemeal reform is better than a Big Bang. That goes for most of the Democrats' domestic agenda
By Michael Lind
July 14, 2009
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People for and against the war agree on one thing only: It was Robert McNamara's fault
By Michael Lind
July 7, 2009
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Conservatives decry "socialized" law enforcement; Democrats are divided over "single-payer" police protection
By Michael Lind
June 30, 2009
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The theocratic repression in Iran is a reminder that there can be no freedom without secular government
By Michael Lind
June 23, 2009
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In which the author imagines what America would be like if the GOP's man had won. Critics of Obama, take note.
By Michael Lind
June 16, 2009
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The right just won all across Europe, thanks to nationalism, populism and recession. It could happen here too.
By Michael Lind
June 9, 2009