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...
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...
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...
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...

