What Will Clinton’s Legacy Be?
The political pundits and TV talk show personalities have begun talking about a subject they think is in their domain to decide: what President Clinton’s legacy will be.…
Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
Global Goals: Bailouts, Bosnia, Lies, and Hot Air — January 1998
Global Goals: Bailouts, Bosnia, Lies, and Hot Air Congress Should Just Say No to IMF Funding While most Americans were celebrating Christmas and exchanging gifts with family…
Why Are Republicans Now Backing Clintoncare?
Memories are short. Some Republicans don’t seem to remember why they captured control of Congress away from the Democrats in 1994 for the first time in four decades.…
Free Trade = Freedom to Lie on Labels
We’re learning more every month about what “free trade” really means. Not only does it mean NAFTA, stunning defeats in disputes before the World Trade Organization (too bad…
Clinton May Get Toasted by Global Warming
The confrontation with Iraq is tending to conceal an impending policy defeat for President Clinton that may dwarf his embarrassments over losing Fast Track and the appropriations for…
Hillary Tries Touting a New Entitlement
Hillary Rodham Clinton should have just had a birthday cake and blown out 50 candles instead of staging what a White House spokesman called a “focused comeback” to…
The Primary Republican Mission Is to Cut Taxes
It was a political earthquake in 1994 when the Republicans won a majority in Congress for the first time in four decades. Three years later, there is no…
Nobel Laureates Denounce Hatch’s Patent Bill
President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, whose chief current goal is to promote public acceptance of the Climate Change Treaty that Clinton will sign in December in Kyoto,…
Confrontation with Clinton over National Testing
President Clinton thinks he’s on the popular side in drawing a line in the sand about his plan for national tests. He’s wrong; he has misjudged the issue.…
Global Goals of the Clinton Administration — October 1997
Global Goals of the Clinton Administration President Bill Clinton appointed his Rhodes scholar roommate and fellow draft dodger, Strobe Talbott, as his personal foreign policy adviser and later…