ANALYSIS & OPINION
Hurricane Sandy by the numbers
People in high places are competing to put a dollar number to the deadly ruination visited upon the Northeast by Hurricane Sandy.
First step in ending DC dysfunction
The GOP has been the driving force behind our dysfunctional politics. Voters have now produced an outcome that offers a possible path out of our governing problems. The election results may have planted the seeds of constructive change.
Fighting off the counterrevolution
Tuesday, the New America defeated the forces of reaction. Obama had led it to power in 2008 -- a movement of young people, working women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, union members, liberals, gays and other groups that had long been denied power.
2013: The year of tax reform
Lawmakers in many state capitals are poised to introduce major tax reform when they return in January. With more than half all state governments controlled by one party, these lawmakers will likely move far more quickly than Congress. What they do could preview the DC debate.
Uncertainty is not going away
The long-awaited, much-desired “certainty” is a mirage. Uncertainty and volatility, in economics and politics, are now as permanent to the macro landscape as competition, resource scarcity, disruptive technology and the race for talent.
Where Karl Rove was right
Rove sought to build a big-tent Republican Party that would be poised to capture the support of a rapidly diversifying America. He was the mastermind behind George W. Bush’s successful Latino strategy in Texas and in 2000.
Obama’s climate change quandary
Faced with a congress that won't do anything on climate change, what's a president to do? Start dealing with climate change the way we already prepare for terrorist threats. Pump money into municipalities to help them prepare in case of disaster.THE LATEST
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