Contributor

Molly Michelmore

Associate professor of history, Washington and Lee University

Molly Michelmore, associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., is the author of "Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Her book traces the development of taxing and spending policy, which are areas not commonly examined together, from the New Deal of the 1930s through the Reagan revolution of the 1980s.

Submit a tip

Do you have info to share with HuffPost reporters? Here’s how.