Michael Lind

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  • Incorporate this!

    Now that you and I own GM, perhaps it's time to relaunch a very old concept -- a special kind of public corporation
    By Michael Lind June 2, 2009

  • The right's Social Security scare tactics

    Libertarians and conservatives react to the latest undramatic report on the trust fund's health by marshalling frightening, meaningless numbers.
    By Michael Lind May 19, 2009

  • Let's cut Social Security to pay for banker bailouts!

    You are about to be hit by another wave of disinformation about how Social Security is going broke and needs reforming (meaning, your benefits must be cut). It's not true.
    By Michael Lind May 12, 2009

  • The "best and the brightest"? Spare me

    Some are arguing that if we prosecute Bush officials for torture, or reregulate the financial industry, talented people won't enter government or become bankers. No, they're not kidding.
    By Michael Lind May 5, 2009

  • The right floats off to Neverland. No girls allowed!

    In Texas and elsewhere, conservatives soothe the pain of electoral rout with dreams of secession -- and of magical nerd kingdoms.
    By Michael Lind April 28, 2009

  • The two Obamas

    Obama is a better foreign-policy president than domestic-policy president. Unfortunately, so was Jimmy Carter. Time to be bold.
    By Michael Lind April 21, 2009

  • America is not a Christian nation

    Religious conservatives argue the Founding Fathers intended the United States to be a Judeo-Christian country. But President Obama is right when he says it isn't.
    By Michael Lind April 14, 2009

  • Rx for the economy: Which doctor should we believe?

    Diagnoses range from a short-term sickness due to lax regulation to long-term ills caused by income inequality. Better hope the doctor who says it's just a sore throat is right.
    By Michael Lind April 7, 2009

  • Obama's timid liberalism

    Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
    By Michael Lind March 6, 2009

  • How would Lincoln vote today?

    Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
    By Michael Lind February 12, 2009

  • No more "wars of choice"

    If the Democrats will stop trying to out-hawk the Republicans, the Obama administration can begin rebuilding America's economy and military -- and international image.
    By Michael Lind January 22, 2009

  • An economic Bill of Rights for Americans

    We need a new citizen-based Social Contract that would deliver universal healthcare and paid family leave.
    By Michael Lind January 21, 2009

  • The Next American System

    We need a New Contract with the American people, starting with a sweeping program of modernization that echoes Lincoln and FDR.
    By Michael Lind January 20, 2009

  • Get money into the economy now

    Is there danger that the stimulus could become nothing more than an appropriations bill? And can green jobs save the economy?
    By Michael Lind and Phil Angelides January 15, 2009

  • The economic Civil War

    The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
    By Michael Lind December 18, 2008

  • Obama's single most important reform

    How the president-elect can get the money for the massive public works he proposes -- without raising taxes.
    By Michael Lind December 9, 2008

  • Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

    Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.
    By Michael Lind November 21, 2008

  • Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic

    His victory really may mark the beginning of a new era in American history.
    By Michael Lind November 7, 2008

  • Is Barack Obama a socialist?

    If he is, then so is John McCain. But the charge is just a racial dog whistle anyway. Can you say "welfare queen"?
    By Michael Lind October 31, 2008

  • The Newer Deal: The path to a Democratic supermajority

    How Democrats can win big in 2010 and beyond -- by doing the opposite of what they're doing now. Think FDR-style liberalism, not McGovern.
    By Michael Lind August 15, 2008

  • Jesse Helms is not dead

    His politics and his methods live on -- among liberals as well as conservatives.
    By Michael Lind July 11, 2008

  • Relax, liberals. You've already won

    No matter who prevails at the ballot box in November, John McCain or Barack Obama, the four-decade-long conservative counterrevolution is over.
    By Michael Lind June 10, 2008

  • The rubes and the elites

    By calling small-town Americans "bitter," Obama has deepened a long-standing rift in the Democratic base. The party's success in November depends on healing it.
    By Michael Lind April 15, 2008

  • Yes, Democrats do need the South!

    Tom Schaller may think the Democrats can whistle past Dixie and still win, but that's a recipe for disaster.
    By Ed Kilgore November 28, 2006

  • Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank

    The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius. It's that he has been consistently, astonishingly, unswervingly wrong about foreign policy for 30 years.
    By Michael Lind March 17, 2005
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