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How to Pass a Gas Tax

How to Pass a Gas Tax

The politics of an unpopular policy In 1993, President Bill Clinton pushed the last bill through Congress to increase the gas tax. Even this, however, was watered-down reform; the tax was not indexed to inflation and increased the price of gas...

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Do Democrats Need to Get Religion?

Do Democrats Need to Get Religion?

Raul Carrillo has a column in today’s Crimson arguing that Democrats need to become better at the “politics of spirituality.” Such exhortations often contain an ambiguity, and Carillo’s is no exception. Is he criticizing...

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Has Change Come to Japan?

Has Change Come to Japan?

After decades of one-party rule, the Liberal Democratic Party falters In the United States last year, “change we can believe in” became a national...

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A Republican New Deal

An ambitious attempt to reshape the Republican promise Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dreamby...

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