Month: March 2016

The Tea Party/Teacher Union Revolt

Thomas Toch, an education specialist at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, has an interesting article in our March/April/May issue of the Washington Monthly on how the teachers’ unions and Tea...

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How Obama Destroyed the Republican Party

When President Obama invited the congressional Republicans to Blair House to discuss his comprehensive health care reform bill on February 25th, 2010, he had a variety of motives. Despite passing the Affordable Care Act through...

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Our Corporate Party Conventions

I forget if I brought this up in a post or just in a comment, but it’s something I’ve speculated about in the recent past: “Some of the country’s best-known corporations are nervously grappling with what role they...

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