US News & World Report, June 16, 2008
You divvy it up. One person, one share. Wired to your bank account like Social Security.
Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1995
SOME POLITICIANS say that ending welfare will improve the character of those who depend on it—make them think twice about having kids, getting divorced or just being lazy.
The New Republic, November 10,1973
WHEN THE TENNESSEE Valley Authority was created by Congress in 1933, it was conceived of not only as an effort to revitalize an impoverished region, but also as an experiment in public enterprise. Forty years later the returns on TVA are pretty much in.
The New Republic, October 13, 1973
THREE of the four provinces in western Canada — Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia — are governed by socialist parties. With the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, these are now the only democratic socialist governments in the Western Hemisphere.
The New Republic, September 8, 1973
BOOKS BY POLITICIANS tend to be boring, staff-produced efforts designed to display The Boss as a thoughtful public servant. What sets Fred Harris’ apart is his unique angle of vision. He is the only major politician who says publicly and indeed vociferously that American capitalism is a shuck.
The New Republic, March 31, 1973
Our economy is controlled by an extremely small, largely unaccountable set of elites operating on behalf of a wealth-owning minority. To alter this pattern of ownership and control is politically unfeasible at the moment, but so are many things until enough people decide they want them.
The New Republic, April 10, 1971
THE OTHER DAY I received a telephone call from a harried civil servant named Wayne Thrush. Mr. Thrush works in the department of the Internal Revenue Service that tracks down delinquent taxpayers, of whom I am one.
The New Republic, March 20, 1971
The New Republic, March 20, 1971
MOST STATES in America welcome population growth. They like the clout it adds to the local economy, to representation in Congress and in the electoral college. Not Oregon.
The New Republic, December 20, 1969
TO RECTIFY the preponderance of military recruiting on the airwaves, San Francisco peace groups have asked TV stations to broadcast anti-recruitment ads (“See your draft counselor, not your recruiter”) as well. Their basis is the Fairness Doctrine.
Newsweek, June 2, 1969
LAST TUESDAY, I was gassed twice in Berkeley. It hurt. The police and National Guard no longer bother with simple tear gas. They are using a chemical called CS — the kids call it pepper gas — that the Army uses in Vietnam.
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