Category Archives: Politics

Great Places

Posted on June 17, 2011 by andy

Last week, I wrote about the fact that progressives desperately need to come up with a twenty-first-century American Dream–and the fact that twenty-first-century America can almost be defined as the kind of place where you can’t come up with a … Continue reading →

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The American Dream?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by andy

For the last six months, I’ve been obsessing on and off about a question that I first heard posed by Robert Cruickshank and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona: What would a twenty-first-century, progressive version of the American Dream look like?  The twentieth-century … Continue reading →

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On Track Records

Posted on May 21, 2011 by andy

This story in TPM may serve to remind us that the Right has made a series of predictions about the effects of policy on the economy over the past several years.  The first was that the Bush tax cuts would … Continue reading →

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Cutting Through the Crap #1

Posted on May 13, 2011 by andy

So, I’m listening to all the coverage of the Senate hearings on eliminating oil subsidies today.  The rhetoric–not just of the principals, but of the actual news commentators on NPR–is insane.  The top five oil companies want to know why … Continue reading →

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