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 By common consent one of America’s two or three greatest newspapers, The Washington Post is particularly celebrated for its coverage of American politics. Its opinion pages are home to some of America’s most prominent commentators, including George Will, Robert Novak, and Charles Krauthammer on the right, David Broder in the center, and E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Harold Meyerson on the left. Meyerson began his weekly (usually Wednesday) column there in March of 2003, just as the Iraqi War was beginning.
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The failures of shareholder capitalism
July 11, 2012
Washington Post
What good are shareholders? Not much, say Jay Lorsch, a Harvard Business School professor, and Justin Fox, the editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, in whose current issue they outline the shortcomings and tally the surprisingly few benefits of shareholder capitalism.
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Harold Meyerson: Thomas Jefferson’s view of equality under siege
July 03, 2012
Washington Post
On the 236th anniversary of our nation’s birth — squalling to the world in our very first utterance that all men were created equal and endowed with unalienable rights — the essence of our politics remains who exactly are those men who are self-evidently equal and inherently vested with those rights. Over the subsequent two-plus centuries, we’ve invoked the spirit of our primal shout every time we’ve expanded our definition of equal men — when we moved to popular elections, abolished slavery, gave women the vote, enacted civil rights legislation and today, when gays and lesbians are winning the equal status and unalienable rights that heterosexual Americans take for granted.
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Class war at the Supreme Court
June 26, 2012
Washington Post
On the eve of the Supreme Court’s much anticipated ruling on Obamacare, here is a simple test for detecting the politics behind a decision: When reading the rulings, look for the double standards and answers to questions not posed by the cases themselves. By those measures, the Supreme Court’s record in the past week fairly reeks of the justices’ politics.
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Obama’s new immigration plan: Good policy, great politics
June 15, 2012
Washington Post
The Obama Administration’s announcement today that it will cease deportations of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came or were brought here as children and meet certain other conditions is one of those rare masterstrokes that is both eminently good policy and great politics to boot.
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What happens if America loses its unions
June 12, 2012
Washington Post
Are American unions history?
In the wake of labor’s defeated effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) last week, both pro- and anti-union pundits have opined that unions are in an all-but-irreversible decline. Privately, a number of my friends and acquaintances in the labor movement have voiced similar sentiments. Most don’t think that decline is irreversible but few have any idea how labor would come back.
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To the barricades with Chuck Lane
June 07, 2012
Washington Post
I don’t for a moment want to diminish the glee that my colleague Chuck Lane is feeling over Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin, or the schadenfreude evident in his taunting of such benighted Walker foes as Katrina vanden Heuvel and me. The occasions for such an emotional release are, I can attest, rare in the life of the pundit, and Chuck is entitled to his.
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