The congressional election is now mercifully over and the daily barrage of negative ads a dimming memory. But it should be remembered that in a rational political system there would have been much to discuss this year. In the summer …
All available signs indicate that Jesse Jackson will again run for the presidency in 1988. A prominent feature of his second candidacy will probably be implicit or explicit threats to bolt the Democratic party and run as an independent in …
The varying reactions to Three Mile Island and to the impending decontrol of the price of domestical- ly produced oil illuminate the shifting fault lines of American politics and provide a glimpse of what the ’80s are likely to offer …
The 95th Congress has been a disaster for American liberalism. A partial listing of progressive measures that failed to survive the Capitol Hill obstacle course would include any type of welfare reform, tax reform, labor reform, or national health insurance; …
Different parts of the past are “alive” at different moments in the present. We are now witnessing an extraordinary upsurge of interest in the period that might be said to have begun with the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in …
