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Vol. 4 No. 14June 1993
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The Other Drug War
Universal health care reform demands that we finally control skyrocketing drug prices. -
Solidaritas at Harvard
Meet the Harvard of the labor movement, a model of the new unionism. -
Imprisoners' Dilemma
Low-level drug dealers will keep appearing, no matter how many jails we build. -
Employee Voice in Competitive Markets
The new global economy demands new models of worker regulation. -
The House That Crack Built: The Inmates of Clark County Jail
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Models of Labor Law Reform
A guide for the perplexed. -
A Constitutional Litmus Test
Justice may be blind, but in appointing justices Clinton needs to be far-sighted. -
Up Against the Wall Street Journal
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Do Europeans Do It Better?
We can learn a lot from European labor policy, but beware naive Sweden-envy. -
Can Clinton Govern?
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The Rhetoric of Reform
How to thwart reactionary rhetoric. -
The Political Court
After a decade of court-packing, now is no time to pretend the courts are apolitical. -
Cracking Down
Commentary on "The House That Crack Built" -
Beyond McPopulism
Can Clinton Put People First? -
But Where Are the Jobs?
Here's one more course-correction for Clinton. Otherwise, look for more low-wage jobs. -
Ethnodrama and Reality
Commentary on "The House That Crack Built" -
Affirmative Action and the Rhetoric of Reaction
Beyond "quota queens." -
The Feeble Strength of One
Suing the boss seems smart, but the company has home-court advantage.
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Vol. 4 No. 13March 1993
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Can Economists Save Economics?
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Damaged Goods: Before Reinventing Government, Clinton Needs to Repair It
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Saving Disgrace? More on Savings
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Beyond Shock Therapy: Why Eastern Europe's Recovery Starts in Washington
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Saving Disgrace? More on Savings
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Crediting the Voters: A New Beginning for Campaign Finance
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Cities in the New Global Economy
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Coming Unfringed: The Unraveling of Job-Based Entitlements
Health care, pensions, and other forms of social income should be rights of citizenship, not perks of increasingly unreliable jobs. -
When Patients Go To Market: The Workings of Managed Competition
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What Works: Applying What We Already Know About Successful Social Policy
Three decades of anti-poverty policy have shed much light on the best strategies for helping families. -
Mangled Competition
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The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life
If we want prosperity, we might begin by working to restore the fabric of community. -
Detoxifying the Debate
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Privatization in Eastern Europe: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
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The Myth of Public School Failure
Public schools are actually performing remarkably well. What they need is not radical reform but more support. -
Who's Bashing Tyson?
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Liberals and Public Investment: Recovering a Lost Legacy
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Deliverance?
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Vol. 4 No. 12January 1993
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Avoiding a Fiscal Dunkirk
A more progressive tax code is an essential part of any new economic plan. -
An Alliance at Risk: The Disability Movement and Health Care Reform
They should be on the same side. -
Winning With Tax Reform: The Connecticut Story
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Continental Drift: NAFTA and Its Aftershocks
The trade problem is much bigger than the treaty. -
The Global Money Trap: Can Clinton Master the Markets?
If not, he will be their slave. -
The Great School Sell-Off
Vouchers would auction off our future. -
Whose Body Politic?
The boundaries between public and private are murkier than ever. -
Coalition or Collision? Medicare and Health Reform
Budget realities could divide old friends. -
A Collective Bargain: Negotiating Human Capitalism
A new deal for labor policy. -
The Politics of Repudiation 1992: Edging Toward Upheaval
Not a major realignment, but ominous rumblings. -
Rebuilding the Nonmarket Economy
Some things are too important to be sold. -
Unsparing Change
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Healthy Compromise: Universal Coverage and Managed Competition Under a Cap
A promising strategy emerges to break the impasse. -
Kinder, Gentler Canada
America could use some northern exposure. -
Affirmative Action at Berkeley
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Stealing First: The Rehnquist Court Gags on Free Speech
Clinton’s appointees need to rescue the Bill of Rights.
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Vol. 3 No. 11September 1992
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Where Private Investment Fails
The key problem is our capital markets. -
The Way We Won: America's Economic Breakthrough During World War II
High growth needn’t require a war. -
Conversion Then and Now
Turning swords into plowshares requires a plan. -
Memo on Presidential Transition
A presidential scholar’s still–timely confidential transition memo to candidate John Kennedy, dated September 15, 1960. -
The Faster Track: Should We Build a High-Speed Rail System?
A solution to traffic jams breaks the investment jam. -
Can We Put a Time Limit on Welfare?
Clinton’s proposal for a two-year limit on AFDC payments would be the most far-reaching welfare reform since 1935. But if the goal is to make welfare mothers self-sufficient, it won’t be cheap. -
Conversion to Competitiveness: Making the Most of the National Labs
If they didn’t exist, we’d have to build them. -
Talk of the Tube: How To Get Teledemocracy Right
If we are realistic and appropriately modest, television can enhance democratic deliberation. -
The Pork Barrel Objection
It’s a problem, but there are ways to minimize it. -
The Limits of Teledemocracy
Some uses of the electronic media could enrich politics. Most recent proposals, however, are video games at best and Bonapartism at worst. -
Shopping for Innovation: Government as Smart Consumer
The way the government buys can push industry ahead. -
Race, Liberalism, Affirmative Action (III)
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Passion, Memory, and Politics, 1992
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Investing on the Frontier: How the U.S. Can Reclaim High-Tech Leadership
Why we need a civilian technology policy. -
The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Income Distribution Debate
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Divided They Govern
Divided government isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. -
Accounting the Future
Why we need a capital budget. -
The Moral Equivalent of War Production
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Vol. 3 No. 10June 1992
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The Wreckage of Airline Deregulation
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From "Projects" to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing
Saving public housing will require more than bootstrap lectures and selling off units to tenants. To transform housing projects into safe communities requires a new balance of rights and responsibilities—and real resources. -
Is the Strike Dead?
The workers who lost the 1892 Homestead Strike would find the situation today all too familiar: employers using strike replacements to destroy labor’s most potent weapon. -
Quiet Success: Where Managed School Integration Works
Despite a skeptical Supreme Court and a growing separatist movement, many communities across the country are showing that a flexible approach to busing is still the best way to integrate schools. -
The Wreckage of Airline Deregulation
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Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race
Blacks and whites do not just disagree about the prevalence of racism; they have different understandings of what racism is. Bridging the gap requires a new look at the language of race and ethnicity in America. -
The Wreckage of Airline Deregulation
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The Quest for Community (Again)
Somewhere between the capitalist’s market and the citizen’s state lies the lost land of community, sought after by humane conservatives, liberals, and social democrats alike. Herewith a modest progressive agenda for repairing some of the damage modernity has done to one of civil society’s foundations—the family. -
Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)
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Hidden Complications: Why Health Care Competition Needs Regulation
The market cure for health care’s maladies would be no simple matter. In fact, the great irony of market reform is that it requires skill in regulation. Yet market reformers tend to deny the competence of government, undermining the very confidence their own remedy requires. -
Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II):
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Life After Tight Money
The conservative experiment with tight money has failed. Popular monetary prescriptions—low interest rates and a more accountable Federal Reserve—are steps in the right direction. But they must go hand in hand with structural reforms to get the economy back on track. -
The Deadly Marathon
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Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)
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The Economic Stakes
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Feminism and Caregiving
Career-minded feminists intent on devaluing caregiving should instead be doing its opposite—increasing its currency among men and women. -
Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)
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The Strong Case for Gun Control
While abhorring violence, Americans genuinely believe that gun control laws cannot reduce violent crime because criminals will not give up their guns. But some new research shows that gun control, properly designed, can be effective as well as constitutional.
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