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When I got the column, I thought that I was going to be changing people's minds over breakfast. It didn't work out that way. If I write about a topic that's already on people's minds, those who start out agreeing with me think I'm brilliant...
It's a bit of both. I want President Obama and Secretary Clinton to read it, but I also think that at the end of the day, leaders don't tend to truly lead on issues where our values are concerned; they respond to public pressure and public demand. If...
Wall Street is lobbying furiously to try to block the CFPA, and Republican congressional leaders have denounced the idea as big-government overreach that would harm consumers by stifling innovation - especially if bank basher (and TARP watchdog) Elizabeth Warren, the intellectual godmother of the agency, gets to run it. Some...
The irony of Ryan's rise is that he has vaulted to popularity by embracing historically unpopular ideas. For obvious reasons, slashing entitlements doesn't play well with the over-65 crowd - America's most faithful voting bloc - and House Republicans have conspicuously stood apart from the plan. But Ryan...
For his part, Ryan considers balancing the budget a moral imperative. "Do we want to reclaim and renew the American idea, where the role of government is to promote equal opportunity?" he asks. "Or do we want to replace that with a more Western European notion of a welfare state...