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Old Favorites
Opening the Capitalist Mind
Fortune, March 19, 2007
We already have a huge welfare state hidden on corporate payrolls—time to move it where it belongs
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The Revolt of the Lower Upper Class
Fortune, October 20, 2006
The coming class war between the merely affluent and the ultrarich
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Is Persuasion Dead?
New York Times, June 4, 2005
Confessions of a desperate columnist
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Start a War, No Money Down!
New York Times, May 14, 2005
The Republican infomercial we never saw
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Wanted: Responsible Demagoguery
New York Times, May 11, 2005
Being a Democrat means being better even when you're bad
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What Is the Democrats' Secret Number?
Fortune, February 23, 2005
Dissecting the tacit assumptions in the Democratic mind
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The Fix Everything Plan
Fortune, January 5, 2005
How to shrink the deficit, save Social Security, and salve our social ills in a few strokes
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Listen to My Rabbi's Wife
Fortune, September 29, 2004
Want a foolproof plan to generate 100% voter turnout? Make elections lotteries.
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My Cross-Examination of Alan Greenspan
My syndicated column, March 17th, 2004
Every prosecuting columnist has his fantasy
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Clinton Military Triumphs in Iraq!
My syndicated column, April 9, 2003
When Rush Limbaugh ranted on this one, 3000 angry dittoheads emailed with kind suggestions
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I Don't Know—A Poet's Lesson for Politicians
My syndicated column, January 1, 2003
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My Enron Confession
My syndicated column, January 16, 2002
A little schadenfraude goes a long way
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The Empathy Gap
My syndicated column, September 19, 2001
Thoughts on our national soul the week after 9/11
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Act II
Slate, March 25, 1998
A one act playlet in which Monica goes film noir
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Special Sauce
Slate, August 6, 1998
Another one act playlet that reveals what Bill and Monica were really doing
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It's Not the Adultery or the Lies that Matter
My syndicated column, January 26, 1998
Why everyone was confused about Clinton's real sin
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Columns on Singapore
What Singapore can teach us
The Washington Post, May 2, 2012
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Singapore's next frontier
The Washington Post, May 9, 2012
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What we can learn from Singapore's health-care model
The Washington Post, March 3, 2010
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