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The Tea Party Last Time
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Parallels between the Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson election campaigns of 1910 and 1912, and the campaigns of 2010 and 2012, drawn by a T.R. biographer. He points to a tumultuous period ahead as lobbyists, outside interests, and the political parties and their supporters battle it out to set the direction of the country.
Parallels between the Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson U.S. election campaigns of 1910, 1914 and the campaigns in 2012 and 2016
10/31/2010
T.R.'s campaign for the Progressive cause and Wilson's campaign for the Democratic party- taking TR's efforts for reducing economic inequality a step forward- have parallels to the debates in the election campaigns of 2012 and 2016 about economic and social mobility and opportunity.
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New York Times 10/31/2010
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2014
No longer the land of opportunity - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/05/2012
From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
Janet Yellen Warns of Inequality Threat
New York Times 10/17/2014
Bad Stock-Market Timing Fueled Wealth Disparity
Wall Street Journal 10/27/2014
Theodore Roosevelt's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, in 1910, and the Obama speech in 2011.
01/18/2009
T.R.'s speech set the nation on a course that would create the modern social and economic fabric we have today. Obama's speech lacked much of the deep insight, far reaching themes, persuasion and appeal showed by T.R.
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Obama, Empathy and the Midterms
New York Times 09/25/2010
New York Times 10/31/2010
From President Obama, Economic Clarity but Little Courage
Washington Post 04/15/2009
From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
The Rough Rider and the Professor
New York Times 12/08/2011
Washington Post 12/22/2011
Terry Lenzner- Democratic Party operative who fought for Civil Rights in the South and defended Clinton
10/31/2010
Lenzner set the stage for a new generation of Democratic Party operatives such as Obama advisor Emmanuel and Daley in Chicago, part of the old coalition of the Democratic Party of minorities and New Deal Democrats from the Roosevelt era. The pendulum of politics swings back to Democrats under Obama after public disillusionment with Republican operatives Cheney and Rumsfeld during the Bush administration.
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Book Review: 'The Investigator,' by Terry Lenzner
Wall Street Journal 10/17/2013
New York Times 10/31/2010
From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
Democratic Dream of Two Blue Coasts? Clinton Is in Striking Distance
The New York Times 08/25/2016
Democrats making the case for vetoing all Bush era tax cuts to preserve middle class spending programs
08/05/2010
Democrats making the case for president Obama to veto all Bush era tax cuts to generate enough revenues for preserving spending programs that help the middle class and the poor. This is part of the debate in Dec. 2012 in the U.S. fiscal cliff negotiations. The opposition to this comes from other Democrats citing rising inequality.
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Americaâs Sinking Middle Class
New York Times 09/18/2013
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts
BusinessWeek 08/05/2010
New York Times 10/31/2010
Middle Class Malaise Complicates Democratsâ Fiscal Stance
New York Times 12/12/2012
Forget the Warnings: Letâs Drive Over the Fiscal Cliff!
New York Times 12/17/2012
Boehner Tax Plan in House Is Pulled, Lacking Votes
New York Times 12/20/2012
U.S. poverty and moral arguments
10/31/2010
Do the poor deserve to be poor because they are indolent and lazy or are their many kinds of poor, some indolent and lazy just like some indolent and lazy wealthy. And in our society should there be opportunities for all. Are some poor doing everything including hard work and good habits but having one or two events push them below the poverty line because of unexpected bills, medical emergency, or some bad event outside their control? These are the moral arguments on different sides. Beyond this there are children, and is a fair society going to make opportunities available to all children of all classes? Egan takes up the issue of a U.S. Congress that employs a certain kind of moral argument for cutting off food stamps and unemployment benefits to the poor.
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New York Times 12/19/2013
New York Times 10/31/2010
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2014
New York Times 05/04/2015
New York Times 05/29/2015
Wall Street Journal 09/17/2015
Tackling middle class poverty in the U.S.- causes and strategies
03/11/2009
Shrinking incomes, low job growth, growth in temporary jobs, offshoring of jobs, are part of a trend since 1989. This is compounded by acceleration of developments during the last decade of low savings and paltry return on savings, effects on net worth of the financial crisis of 2008 through job losses, lost income, foreclosures, high cost of health care and college tution for children. The combination is creating a new kind of middle class poverty in the U.S. The Obama administration has pushed for college education even as it is becoming less affordable and neglected jobs training. The push to raise the minimum wage helps the poor but does not do as much for the middle class.
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Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
8 States to Raise Minimum Wage
New York Times 12/23/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
New York Times 02/10/2010
The Left and Liberals in America in 2011-2012
10/31/2010
Michael Kazin of Georgetown University offers an historical perspective on the Left and Liberals in America since the turn of the century. The momentum of the Progressive movement under Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, during the late 19th and early to mid 20th century.
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New York Times 10/31/2010
From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
How Far Left Has America Moved?
New York Times 02/12/2016
What Clinton and Sanders owe progressives - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2016
Whatever Happened to the American Left?
New York Times 09/24/2011
Why we need a third party - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/26/2011
Abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker and Martin Luther King- the origin of the "arc of the moral universe is a long one but it bends towards justice."
09/04/2010
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Jamie Stiehm - Oval Office rug gets history wrong
Washington Post 09/04/2010
New York Times 10/31/2010
King’s words, all of them, to be restored - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/14/2012
For Obama and Indian Leader, a Friendly Stroll if Not a Full Embrace
New York Times 09/30/2014
WASP's, Meritocrats and questions about progress- a reminder on leadership for America
04/05/2009
Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush, Clinton,and Obama. Epstein looks at the WSP's and the Meritocrats and how there is little progress, somewhat the reverse with meritocrats. He says college reputations don't count for much in capacity for genuine service to the country- citing Truman and Reagan as examples of leaders without prestigious university backgrounds or WASP background who served America well and are respected decades later.
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Obama, Empathy and the Midterms
New York Times 09/25/2010
New York Times 10/31/2010
Harry Truman, Leader of the Freeway
New York Times 04/05/2009
Geithner Book Reveals Consensus, Not VIsion, During Financial Crisis
New York Times 05/21/2014
From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
L.B.J. and Truman: The Bond That Helped Forge Medicare
New York Times 02/28/2015
Increasing disparities in income in major U.S. urban areas in 2009-2013
01/20/2009
High unemployment and poverty in major urban areas of the US including Washington D.C. This is especially true for those without a college education.
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New York Times 06/22/2013
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/2013
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
Wall Street Journal 10/11/2013
Patchwork of Local Wage Laws Fuels Debate Over Raising Federal Minimum
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
Upward Mobility Has Not Declined, Study Says
New York Times 01/23/2014
Deep Poverty in the U.S. increasing from about 30% of people in poverty in 1975 to 44% in 2013
09/17/2010
Deep poverty is defined as income 50% below the official poverty line. Since the beginning of the recession deep poverty in the U.S. has increased from 42% to 44%. The striking change in America is the accentuation of the income differences with the rise in deep poverty. This is coupled with similiar changes in income differences for the middle class Americans with income concentrated at the higher levels.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/11/2013
Patchwork of Local Wage Laws Fuels Debate Over Raising Federal Minimum
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
Bloomberg's Real Antipoverty Record
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/17/2010
Upward Mobility Has Not Declined, Study Says
New York Times 01/23/2014
New Data Muddle Debate on Economic Mobility
Wall Street Journal 01/24/2014
The Tea Party movement and the Republican party in the U.S.
10/23/2010
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That Monolithic Tea Party Just Wasnât There
New York Times 08/01/2011
Boehner Urges G.O.P. Unity in âEpic Battleâ
New York Times 10/04/2013
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/2013
Robert J. Samuelson - The dysfunction of American politics
Washington Post 10/25/2010
Cruz’s Power to Disrupt Faces a Fresh Test
Wall Street Journal 12/08/2014
The Two Parties Aren’t Crazy, Just Changed
Wall Street Journal 10/13/2015
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