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DLC | Opinion | September 2, 2009
Partisan Superfans are Driving Average Americans From Politics
By Marc Dunkelman
Opposing sides are so vested in winning the battle that they've lost sight of the bigger war.
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DLC | Policy Report | May 27, 2009
An Easy Fix for the Appointment Crunch
By Edward Gresser
To fix the problem, the Senate and administration should reach a grand bargain,
narrowing the scope of appointees subject to Senate confirmation, but also encouraging
the executive branch to reduce its use of senior counselors and other staffers outside
the normal chain of policy command.
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PPI | Front & Center | April 3, 2009
The Ultimate Post-Partisan Issue
By Will Marshall
Passage of the Serve America bill is a major breakthrough. It enables us to build a uniquely American approach to public problem solving that has proven its worth in communities across the country, multiplies opportunities for people to give back to their communities while earning money to pay for their education, and establishes a growth trajectory that eventually could move national service from the margins to the center of our national life, where it belongs.
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PPI | Front & Center | March 4, 2009
Veto This Turkey
By Will Marshall
The Senate this week seems likely to pass an earmark-laden, $410 billion omnibus spending bill leftover from the last fiscal year. Even though he is in no way responsible for this mess, we hope President Obama will veto the bill the moment it lands on his desk.
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PPI | Front & Center | March 2, 2009
Obama Budget Plan: Echoes of 'Memos'
By Will Marshall and Mark Ribbing
President Obama's budget outline contains several important policy reforms and innovations worth mentioning. Many of them mirror chapters in PPI's new book, Memos to the New President.
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PPI | Front & Center | February 4, 2009
Obama: Right on 'Buy American'
By Edward Gresser
President Obama's opposition to a "Buy American" clause in the stimulus bill is not only the right call, but a courageous one that shows the new administration is willing to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
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PPI | Front & Center | January 26, 2009
Clean Cars: Putting the United States on the Road to Recovery
By Dr. Jan Mazurek
President Barack Obama today signaled his commitment to put the United States on the road to recovery -- while at the same time tackling our dangerous dependence on oil -- by directing the EPA to reconsider California and 18 other states' request to adopt "tailpipe" standards that will cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases implicated in global climate change.
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PPI | Front & Center | January 9, 2009
America's Awful Employment Decade
By Edward Gresser
Across eight years, the Bush era produced fewer new jobs than any president in over a century.
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PPI | Front & Center | June 11, 2008
Senate Republicans Have Eyes Shut on Climate Security
By Jan Mazurek
The significance of the abortive cap-and-trade debate on the Senate floor was it revealed a GOP still in deep denial about the environmental, security, and economic need to put a price on carbon.
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DLC | 2008 Briefing Series | May 8, 2008
Immigration Policy
By Mark Ribbing
Immigration, particularly illegal immigration, has emerged as one of the most passionately contested topics in American politics -- and is likely to be a significant political issue in 2008.
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The (N.J.) Star-Ledger | Opinion | April 10, 2008
Finance System Cries Out for Reform, But the Right Kind
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
Whenever Wall Street faces a massive correction, Washington feels compelled to act. As we begin to consider measures to prevent another Bear Stearns, we ought to take a holistic view of how to improve oversight of the financial services industry.
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The San Jose Mercury News | Opinion | April 6, 2008
Bush Fails to Help Struggle for Human Rights in China
By Jim Arkedis
By heedlessly agreeing to attend the Olympic ceremonies in Beijing without conditions, President Bush has sent an unmistakable signal that America turns a blind eye to China's abuses of its own people.
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DLC | Commentary | January 29, 2008
DLC Response to President Bush's Final State of the Union
George W. Bush's seventh and last State of the Union Address didn't break an inch of new policy ground, held no significant surprises, and seemed to take place in a different country than the highly energetic campaign to choose his successor.
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PPI | Front & Center | November 26, 2007
Restoring a Proper Balance on Surveillance
By Jim Arkedis
The best way to balance security and privacy is to not engage in retrospective recriminations against private companies, but to pass new legislation that clearly brings future domestic surveillance and intelligence collection under the rule of law and democratic accountability.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 19, 2007
Idea of the Week: Three Reforms For the Housing Market
In a new Progressive Policy Institute report, Paul Weinstein Jr. offers three immediate steps that could offer relief to struggling homeowners and help for new homebuyers, and for the housing market as a whole.
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The Baltimore Sun | Opinion | October 12, 2007
Blackwater May Be Tip of the Iceberg
By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Marc Dunkelman
Capitol Hill is abuzz over allegations of vigilantism and recklessness by U.S. contractors in Iraq. But reports that Blackwater USA has operated outside the law could turn out to be a window into a much larger Bush administration scandal.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 3, 2007
Bush's Dishonest Case For Vetoing S-CHIP
Though it was hardly a surprise, President Bush's veto of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing and improving the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) was still breathtaking in the fundamental dishonesty of the case he made for his action.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | October 2, 2007
Elephants With Very Short Memories
It's time to end the fiscal madness, and a good starting point is to expose the GOP's ludicrous efforts to claim the mantle of fiscal sanity.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | September 20, 2007
Democrats Getting Health Care Right
With the public increasingly demanding action on health care in response to ever-rising premiums and steady erosions in coverage, it's clear Democrats, and only Democrats, are rising to the challenge.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | June 22, 2007
Bush's Stem Cell Stand: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Passed
On every front, it's time to overcome opposition to embryonic stem cell research as a bad idea whose time has long since passed.
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