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Pop Quiz: Under Reagan, What Was Peak Unemployment, How Long Before It Began Declining?

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tobacco Industry, Stimulus, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Unemployment Rates, Tax Cuts, Politics News
Paul Abrams

As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are already 14% lower than Reagan's 1981 tax cut.

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Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads"

The Nation | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: George H. W. Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Gorbachev George H. W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bush Reagan Extreme, Ronald Reagan, Gop, Bush Reagan Comment, Bush Gop Supporters Blockheads, President Bush, Republicans, Gop Supporters Blockheads, Politics News

On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mik...

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Reagan's Anti-Government Kool-Aid Has Poisoned Civil Public-Option Dialogue

Bill Mann | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: France, Canada, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Thom Hartmann, Conservatives, Federal Government, Gop, Politics News
Bill Mann

The indignant, GOP, all-government-is-bad know-nothings have swallowed the Kool-Aid. And Ronald Reagan was the guy who dressed up as a giant pitcher and convinced them do it.

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Dick Cheney Keeps the Flame Aloft

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Dithering, Afghanistan, Frank Gaffney, Ronald Reagan, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Cold War, Center-for-Security-Policy, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

It might be tempting to dismiss Cheney's remarks -- about Obama allegedly dithering when it comes to Afghanistan -- as so much conservative boilerplate. But that would be a mistake.

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Reagan's Lesson: "Patience" in a President's First Year Is Political Suicide

David Sirota | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Obama First Term, First Term, Politics News
David Sirota

The same Beltway culture that venerates the political vehemence and aggressiveness of Ronald Reagan would manufacture a conventional wisdom that the first year of a president's first term is the time for patience.

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Obama Attempts Escape in Presidential Helium Balloon

Ben Berkon | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Unemployment, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Andrew Jackson, Helium Balloon, Ben Berkon, Barack Obama, Nobel Piece Prize, Economy, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

In White House news, upon hearing about the six-year old boy from Colorado who flew away in his parent's helium balloon, President Obama decided to es...

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News
Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Her? Oh, That's Just Crazy Old Aunt Peg

Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Peggy Noonan, Noonan, Obama Nobel, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Wall Street Journal, Political Columnists, Media News
Ellis Weiner

According to Peggy Noonan, Reagan deserved a Nobel because he failed to waste a fortune on a boondoggle that would have made the world less safe. That he failed to win it was "absurd."

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Nobel Prize Snubs: Which Great People Never Won?

Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Nobel, Slidepoll, Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize, Eleanor Roosevelt, World News

The announcement that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize has inspired a new wave of history-seekers to look into the prize. Who's won and who h...

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I Hate America!

Steven Weber | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Control, Education, Ronald Reagan, Republicans, Politics News
Steven Weber

And therefore, I will be supporting the same policies which led directly to the current fiscal crisis and everything else related to Ronald Reagan's universally discredited theory of trickle-down economics.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton and That Crazy California Governorship

William Bradley | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Emerson, Bill Clinton, Steve Westly, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Tom Campbell, Antonio Villaraigosa, Pat Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California, Meg Whitman, 1992 Presidential Race, Gavin Newsom, Warren Beatty, Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, 2010 Gubernatorial Race, Hillary Clinton, Tom McClintock, Bill Lockyer, Tonight Show, Biltmore Hotel, Century Plaza Hotel, Don Sipple, 2003 California Recall, Dot-Com Boom, Field Poll, John Garamendi, Enron, Pete Wilson, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Politics News
William Bradley

California's next governor is likely someone who's already won a landslide election as governor, albeit 30 years ago. That's Jerry Brown, who won his latest landslide for Attorney General in 2006.

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An Accidental Lesson in Responsibility

Michael Parrish DuDell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Workforce, Snuggie, Ronald Reagan, Michael Moore, Sacrifice, Nonprofits, Capitalism: A Love Story, Bernard Madoff, Living News
Michael Parrish DuDell

The truth is the future of our society lies in the apathetic hands of my generation and the one below. And quite honestly that frightens me.

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Even Conservatives Conclude GOP Has No Credible Economic Policy

New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Economic Policy, Bruce Bartlett, Bruce Bartlett Book, Ronald Reagan, Gop Economic Policy, Republican Economic Policy, Politics News

Successful economic ideas usually end up being taken too far. Democrats dominated the middle part of the 20th century, thanks in part to their vigo...

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Moses vs. Jesus: Who is America's Prophet?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Bible, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Thanksgiving, Jesus, George W. Bush, Liberty Bell, Christian Right, Pilgrims, Statue of Liberty, Moses, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce Feiler

The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.

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Reagan's Response to the Revolt of '78 and the Relevance for Republicans Today

Lou Zickar | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Rnc, Politics News
Lou Zickar

For all the talk about moving beyond Reagan and becoming a party of the future instead of the past, the fact is that the GOP would benefit greatly from a dose of Reagan-style optimism at this time.

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Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

Dan Siegel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Reagan, Elizabeth Warren, Populism, Flint, Gm, Ronald Reagan, Frank Capra, George W. Bush, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, Franklin Roosevelt, Michael Moore Capitalism, Dick Cheney, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Casino-Capitalism, Marcy Kaptur, Fdr, Grapes of Wrath, Entertainment News
Dan Siegel

With the glimmering hope of the Obama campaign behind us, Moore's film is a wake-up call to renew and expand America's democratic promise.

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Trapped In Prisoner's Dilemma, More Spending Is The Solution

David Segal | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Curtis, Tea Parties, Nobel Prize, Economic Stimulus Package, Ronald Reagan, Deficit Spending, RAND Corportation, Margaret Thatcher, Prisoner's Dilemma, Mad Hatter, Game Theory, John Nash, Economy, Keynesian Economics, Politics News
David Segal

The stimulus' oft-cited $787 billion figure includes nearly $300 billion in tax cuts, meaning that it represents a split between conservative and interventionist economic philosophy.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Alert The TV News Media: Obamanomics Isn't Working

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media

Read More: John Cassidy, Job Losses, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Unemployment Rate, New Deal, Fdr-New-Deal, Jobs, News Media, Media, Franklin Roosevelt, Diane Tucker, Barack Obama, Recession, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Cnn, Unemployed, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Fox News, Unemployment Benefits, Work Projects Administration, Charles Gibson, Banks, NBC News, Layoffs, Msnbc, Bank of America, Aig, Cnbc, Citibank, Bankruptcy, Timothy Geithner, Financial Crisis, The Recession, The Bailouts, Careers, Labor, CBS Evening News, ABC News, Small Business, Economy, Michelle Obama, Capitalism: A Love Story, Media News
Diane Tucker

Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates

John R. Bohrer | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Earl Warren, John Tower, Senate Republicans, 1964, Moderate Democrats, Joe Biden, Dscc, Bipartisan, 2011, Barack Obama, Thomas Kuchel, Economic Stimulus Package, 2010, Moderates, Bob Menendez, Joseph Alsop, 1965, Orrin Hatch, Bipartisanship, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Republicans, Barry Goldwater, Health Care, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think.

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HuffPost Review - Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tarp, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Reviews, Michael Moore, Scott Mendelson, George W. Bush, Propaganda, Documentary, Chris Dodd, Capitalism: A Love Story, Bank Bailout, News, Barack Obama, Movies, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

For the first time that I can remember, a Michael Moore documentary/propaganda piece is less about the subject at hand and more about Michael Moore himself.

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Obama at the UN: Will He Sound the Trumpet for Human Rights?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, World News, United Nations, Gorbachev, Obama, China, Myanmar, Palestinians, Japan, Iran, Ronald Reagan, Venezuela, Tehran, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Chavez, North Korea, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.

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