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Health CareNovember 28, 2021
Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure
Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Affordable Care Act.
Ryan Cooper
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Financial CrisisApril 6, 2020
How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short
Faced with the shattering 2008 crisis, Obama and his key advisers largely sought to restore the wobbly pre-crisis status quo.
Ryan Cooper
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Election 2016August 26, 2019
What Political Scientists Get Wrong About 2016
While their evidence about the racism of many American voters is indisputable, their attempt to discount the role economics plays in this racism and in voting behavior in general is unconvincing.
Ryan Cooper
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February 14, 2018
The Rise and Fall of Clintonism
What two recent books on Bill and Hillary tell us about the political and economic costs of the New Democrats.
Ryan Cooper
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BiographyAugust 8, 2017
George McGovern’s Alternative Path for the Democratic Party
His populism and internationalism provide an excellent foundation for a badly needed new approach by the American left.
Ryan Cooper