Michael Lind - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/michael_lind/?source=rss&aim=michael_lind en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST Articles about politics Can populism be liberal? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/23/populism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/23/populism/index.html?source=rss The GOP has owned it since Nixon. Democrats would have to return to the New Deal to recapture it The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/16/pledge_of_allegiance/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/16/pledge_of_allegiance/index.html?source=rss Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around? Three anniversaries By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/09/three_anniversaries/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/09/three_anniversaries/index.html?source=rss The fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers: Each ushered in a new American era The tax breaks that ate America By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/26/tax_subsidies/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/26/tax_subsidies/index.html?source=rss The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is not creeping socialism. It's creeping subsidism That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/19/jobs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/19/jobs/index.html?source=rss The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis Why Dilbert is doomed By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/02/healthcare_employment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/02/healthcare_employment/index.html?source=rss The jobs of tomorrow are not what you'd expect How I learned to stop worrying and live with the bomb By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/13/nuclear_weapons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/13/nuclear_weapons/index.html?source=rss Neither terrorists nor rogue states like North Korea are likely to use nuclear weapons. Here's why Salon interviews the late Adam Smith By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/06/adam_smith/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/06/adam_smith/index.html?source=rss The 18th century's patron saint of free markets shares his surprising views about Barack Obama and the U.S. economy The end of the Pax Americana? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/obama_pax_americana/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/obama_pax_americana/index.html?source=rss Obama has the chance to end our Cold War hangover, and start an era where the U.S. is not the sole global policeman Intellectual conservatism, RIP By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/22/neoconservatism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/22/neoconservatism/index.html?source=rss I was once a young neoconservative. The word meant something different then, before it was hijacked by extremists Uninsured like me By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/race/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/race/index.html?source=rss Diversity is healthcare reform's worst enemy. White America has never liked social insurance for people of color Who are the wealth creators? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/07/labor_day/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/07/labor_day/index.html?source=rss The right says the answer is rich people, not workers -- who are wealth destroyers Can Obama give 'em hell before it's too late? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/01/demagogy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/01/demagogy/index.html?source=rss Why can't Democrats mobilize the public for healthcare reform? Blame the demagogy gap Liberalism without labor unions? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/25/labor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/25/labor/index.html?source=rss Hey Democrats: Can liberal interest groups and social elites really form the basis of a successful political party? Obama, you're no Machiavelli By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/18/machiavelli/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/18/machiavelli/index.html?source=rss The president should have heeded the Florentine's advice before he embarked on healthcare reform Are liberals seceding from sanity? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/11/south/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/11/south/index.html?source=rss The left is crazy to insult white Southerners as a group Can Obama be deprogrammed? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/04/neoliberalism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/04/neoliberalism/index.html?source=rss The president is a prisoner of the cult of neoliberalism Immigrants should be eligible for the presidency By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/28/immigrant_president/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/28/immigrant_president/index.html?source=rss "Birthers" say Obama isn't "natural born" and can't be president. Let's make their whole delusional argument moot Healthcare reform: More raw deal than New Deal By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/21/healthcare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/21/healthcare/index.html?source=rss We need universal, citizen-based healthcare. It doesn't look like Obama and Congress are ready to give it to us Against comprehensive reform -- of anything By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/14/reform/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/14/reform/index.html?source=rss History shows that piecemeal reform is better than a Big Bang. That goes for most of the Democrats' domestic agenda All sides blame McNamara for Vietnam By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/07/mcnamara/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/07/mcnamara/index.html?source=rss People for and against the war agree on one thing only: It was Robert McNamara's fault Debate over government-funded police protection heats up By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/30/police/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/30/police/index.html?source=rss Conservatives decry "socialized" law enforcement; Democrats are divided over "single-payer" police protection Wanted: Freedom from religion By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/23/religion_iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/23/religion_iran/index.html?source=rss The theocratic repression in Iran is a reminder that there can be no freedom without secular government It is summer 2009, and John McCain is president By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/16/president_mccain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/16/president_mccain/index.html?source=rss In which the author imagines what America would be like if the GOP's man had won. Critics of Obama, take note. A warning for Democrats? By Michael Lind Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/09/populist_backlash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/09/populist_backlash/index.html?source=rss The right just won all across Europe, thanks to nationalism, populism and recession. It could happen here too.