by Bill Scher | Oct 31, 2008 | Blog
David Sirota astutely analyzed the tensions within the Democratic party yesterday, keying off of a Wall Street Journal piece. Rightly critical of counterproductive public infighting, he concludes: ...what that inappropriately anticipatory behavior suggests is 1) that...
by Bill Scher | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
Amity Shlaes clearly doesn't like that my recent post called out that her revisionist history of the New Deal is based on misleading numbers. She responded on the National Review blog The Corner: (emphasis added) Scher says that The Forgotten Man has been “found to...
by Bill Scher | Oct 29, 2008 | Blog
For almost the entire history of the environment movement, its opponents framed the debate as "Environment vs. Jobs." Now, Robert Borosage optimistically asks if we'll soon see "a 21st-century Green New Deal" effectively connecting the environment and job growth as...
by Bill Scher | Oct 29, 2008 | Blog
As we are facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression as a result of conservative deregulation, it's only logical that we would look to how we successfully dealt with the last major economic crisis -- the progressive principles that shaped President...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2008 | Blog
The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote yesterday: ...it might be dangerous for the Republican Party to elevate the stakes for this election to a death match between competing ideologies. If Barack Obama's victory is as decisive as it is shaping up to be, the Democrats can...
