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Are We Moving Ahead -- or Heading Back?

Our fellow Americans, at long last, are getting it. Not only is the Age of Reagan over; it's becoming increasingly clear that the entire post-WWII order has come to the end of its run. The world as we have known it is passing away; and with it, so does our ability to...

Postcard from Wasilla

Jonathan Raban, writing in the London Review of Books, gives us a keen insight into what happens when you let conservatives build cities: Present-day Wasilla is Palin’s lasting monument. It sits in a broad alluvial valley, puddled with lakes, boxed in on three sides...

Firing Back on the CRA Libel

Conservative pundits and politicians have piled onto the excuse like shipwreck victims clinging to a passing log: The real blame for the current economic crisis lies not with anything they did, but rather with the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act—a successful...

Condemned to Repeat It: When Our National Memory Fails

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Santayana's warning is now such a persistent cliche only because it's so painfully true. Where have we seen this kind of meltdown before? Oh, yeah, right—we've got those family snapshots of our grandparents...

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