Reconstructing a Democratic Vision
The Democrats ended the 1988 election demoralized. Late in October, Michael Dukakis, facing almost certain defeat, stood at rail-side in Bakersfield, California and made his confession. He was a...
View ArticleFrom Crisis to Working Majority
The story of the Democratic Party crisis begins in Macomb County, north of the Detroit City line -- and in Northeast Philadelphia, Cobb County near Atlanta, California's San Fernando Valley, and...
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Private Heroism and Public Purpose
The progressive economic narrative today begins with the stagnation and growing inequality that characterizes this period of change and possibility. That seems a natural enough starting point....
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Democratic Possibilities
This political era, properly understood, offers great opportunity for progressive Democrats. The conservatives ascendant in both parties are more intent on budget cutting and attacking government than...
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The Mythology of Centrism
When Tony Blair and Bill Clinton held a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at 10 Downing Street in London on May 29, they might just as well have been standing in a place called the "radical...
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After the Republican Surge
Most Democrats have a hard time being optimistic these days, and it's easy to understand why. The 1994 midterm election produced a swing to the Republicans and a new nationalization of politics that...
View Article"We"--Not "Me"
Distrust of government is down and the public is clearly looking for an expanded governmental role in a vast range of areas related to the September 11 attacks. How else can we explain the big debate...
View ArticleContesting Values
In his State of the Union address, President Bush told a rapt nation and the assembled government of the United States that our nation faces grave threats and must live up to its "great...
View Article1991: How We Found -- and Lost -- a Majority
Stanley B. Greenberg's Fall 1991 article, “From Crisis to Working Majority,” was widely considered a key manifesto for the 1992 Clinton campaign. Bob Woodward reported that Bill Clinton said he had...
View ArticleFrom Crisis to Working Majority
The story of the Democratic Party crisis begins in Macomb County, north of the Detroit City line -- and in Northeast Philadelphia, Cobb County near Atlanta, California's San Fernando Valley, and...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Back -- But...
Today's presidential candidates navigate a partisan landscape strikingly more Democratic than that in 2004 and even 2006. Poll after poll confirms the president's low job approval and the public's...
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Winning With the Economy -- or Without It
The Message Matters: The Economy and Presidential Campaignsby Lynn Vavreck, Princeton University Press, 205 pages, $24.95No future candidates for president and few of their advisers will read Lynn...
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Mandela on the Campaign Trail
Jenny WarburgBelow is an excerpt from Stanley Greenberg's book,Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders. In one section of the memoir, published in 2009, Greenberg,...
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How Progressive Policies Can Lead to a Democratic Majority
This article appears in the Spring 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Click here for a free PDF of this 25th Anniversary issue of the Prospect. What is the biggest obstacle to Democrats...
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The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
wwc_icon2.jpgThis article appears in the Summer 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The road to a sustainable Democratic majority—nationally, locally, and in the states—must...
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How She Lost
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed CampaignAmie Parnes and Jonathan AllenPenguinThis article appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.Hillary Clinton’s...
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The Broad Support for Taxing the Wealthy
This article appears in the Summer 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The 2018 elections in November could be as important to Democrats as the anti-Obamacare 2010 wave...
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