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...thing. "The goal should not be to save consumers from themselves by making it impossible for them to get credit cards," he wrote in a Washington Monthly article in 2005. "It should be to give consumers the means to manage their credit...

In this article: Barack Obama, Eliot Spitzer, Washington, New York City, Washington Monthly, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, CAP, David Paterson, and Gordon Douglas

So wrote Ted Turner, the media entrepreneur who sold off CNN and the rest of Turner Broadcasting to Time Warner in 1996, in a remarkable Washington Monthly article five years ago that remains as compelling a case against media...

In this article: Comcast, Vertical integration, Ted Turner, CNBC, USA, Revenue, Localism, Recession, Dog, and Oxygen

...routinely released controversial news on Fridays Steve Benen: Friday news releases were Rove's "signature move." On his Washington Monthly blog, Political Animal, Steve Benen wrote: "I nearly fell out of my chair reading [Rove's...

In this article: Karl Rove, Justice Department, White House, Brian Kilmeade, Republican Party, and Dioxin

...of being accused of too much taxation and too big a government that they won't consider what has worked in the past? Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly, is the author of a forthcoming book on Lyndon Johnson. © 2009

In this article: Barack Obama, Tax, Afghanistan, Unemployment, Nguyen Van Thieu, Lyndon Johnson, and Appropriation

...b/day) and more bicycling (250,000+ b/day). The liberal D's (Daily Kos) have welcomed me with open arms (3 speeches in DC in January, cover Washington Monthly) but zero traction with Rs despite the national security implications (move food...

In this article: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Reihan Salam, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Mark Levin

...calling him a KeynesianaEUR"a believer in fiscal stimulus and the mixed economy. aEURoeWe are all Keynesians again,aEUR� the liberal Washington Monthly headlined a January 2009 feature on the Fed chief. In reality, Bernanke is following a...

In this article: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve System, Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz, Inflation, Deflation, Alan Greenspan, Barack Obama, and Economics

...gatherings as possible over the next three weeks, seeking to bring the tea party kettle back to a full boil. In a 1994 piece in the Washington Monthly magazine, writer Jon Meacham, now editor of Newsweek, described Kristol's plan for...

In this article: GOP, John Boehner, Bill Clinton, Social Security, Civil Rights Act, Washington Monthly, Families USA, Congressional Budget Office, and Newsweek

...under the new government, and making them difficult to remove. In fact, the Bushies were far from the first group to try this. The Washington Monthly's Charles Peters, who has chronicled the workings of the federal government since...

In this article: Brookings Institution, Washington Monthly, and Office of Personnel Management

...to the universities involved and the families who support them. Take, for instance, a story in the November/December issue of Washington Monthly magazine unearthing an extraordinary fact about Maryland. Over the past four years, the...

In this article: Maryland, Martin O'Malley, Class struggle, Washington Monthly, American college, and Columbia University

...Guardian columnist. She was formerly BBC social affairs editor, columnist and associate editor of the Independent, co-editor of the Washington Monthly and a reporter and feature writer for the Observer. She has written several books: Hard...

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