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Left-neoliberalism: a bold strategy for the year 1999

By On August 4, 2011

Matt Yglesias takes another swing at the left-neoliberalism debate (now renamed progressive-neoliberalism?) in this post here.

He claims that British left-wingers’ gripes about the alleged failure of the Blair/Brown New Labour project – which he takes to be a shining model of progressive neoliberal governance – are definitively refuted by this graph:

 

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Lady Justice

By On June 20, 2011

From Doug Henwood:

So the Supreme Court handed down its decision on the Walmart (né Wal-Mart) sex discrimination case. It can be summarized in three words of Brooklyn dialect: “get outta here.” I will defer to my wife, Liza Featherstone, who wrote the book on the case, for detailed analysis. But I [...]

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Liberalism Summed Up In One Anecdote

By On June 17, 2011

Branko Milanovic

I was in a think tank in Washington. The president of the think tank told me: “Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see [...]

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Who’s bluffing whom?

By On June 15, 2011

I have a confession to make: I love reading liberal policy blogs. For two reasons. First, because they give you lots of information. Second, because they give you so much information it’s easy to tell when they’re being totally clueless. Take this example from The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait. When he wants to, he [...]

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